LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 



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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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Millennial Day- Star. 



By R. J. SIMS. 



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And he laid hold ou the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, 
and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. — Rev. xx. 2. 



Naskviu/E, Tknn. : 
printed for the author. 

1892. 



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R. J. Sims, 

Pomeroy, Washington, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, 

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CONTENTS. 



1. Beginning of the Millennium, 

2. Christ and His Kingdom, 

3. The Three Great Dispensations, . 

4. The Love of Christ, 

5. The Mount of Olives, . 

6. The Passover, 

7. Covenant of Grace, 

8. The Jews — Gentiles — Gospel, 

9. Duality of the Bible, . 

10. The Two Great Cities, 

11. The Spirit without Measure, 

12. Angelology, 

13. Praying for all Men, 

14. The Star of Bethlehem, . 

15. Suffering and Reigning with Christ, 

16. Living by Faith, .... 

17. Faith and Action, 

18. Faith and God, .... 

19. Faith and Works, 

20. Faith and Purity, .... 

21. Faith and Keeping, 

22. Faith and Cleansing, 

23. Faith and Obedience, . 

24. Faith and Self, 

25. Faith and Sickness, 

26. Faith and Reputation, 

27. Faith and Work, .... 

28. Faith and Property, 

29. Faith and Children, 

30. Faith and Burdens, .... 

31 . Faith and Troubles, 

32. Faith and Resting, .... 

33. Faith and Children, 



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34. Faith and Anxiety, . 

35. Faith and Consecration, 

36. Faith and Faithfulness, . 

37. Faith and God's Will, . 

38. Faith and Promises, 

39. Faith and Growth in Grace, 

40. Faith and Increase of Faith, 

41. Faith and the Heart, . 

42. Faith and Intemperance, 

43. Faith and the Spirit, . 

44. Faith and Experience, 

45. Faith and Help, . 

46. Faith and Success, . 

47. Faith and the Truth, . 

48. Faith and Feeling, . 

49. Faith and Our Judgment, 

50. Faith and the Will, . 

51. Faith and the Controlling, 

52. Faith and Memory, 

53. Faith and Yielding to the Spirit, 

54. Faith and Heeding, 

55. Faith and Patience, 

56. Faith and Worship, 

57. Faith and Meditation, . 

58. Faith Resting, .... 

59. Faith-Delight, 

60. Faith and Testimony, 

61. Faith and God's Thoughts, 

62. Faith and God's Goodness, 

63. Faith and Providence, 

64. Faith and Mercy, 

65. Faith and Endurance, , 

66. Faith and Satan, 

67. Faith and Temptations 

68. Faith and the World, 

69. Faith and Afflictions, . 

70. Faith and Adversity, 

71. Faith and Drunkenness, 

72. Faith and Oppression, 

73. Faith and Famine, 



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74. Faith and Earthquakes, . 

75. Faith and Assurance, . 

76. Faith and Troubles, 

77. Faith and Murmurings, 

78. Faith and God's Will Our Will, 

79. Faith and Grace, 

80. Faith and Feeling, . 

81. Faith and Rooted in Love, . 

82. Faith and Established, 

83. Faith and Knowledge, 

84. Faith and Grace in the Soul, . 

85. Faith and the Source of Grace, 

86. Faith and Repose, 

87. Faith and Service, 

88. Faith and Time and Eternity, 

89. Faith and Pleasure, 

90. Faith and God's Presence, 

91. Faith and the Cross, 

92. Faith and Sorrow, 

93. Faith and Our Soul Life, 

94. Faith and Our Guide, 

95. Faith and Our Judgment, . 

96. Faith and Studying, 

97. Faith and the Spirit Guiding in Temporal Things, 

98. Faith and Words, 

99. Faith and Reason, . . . . 

100. Faith and Confidence, 

101. Faith and Waiting 

102. Faith and Promptness, 

103. Faith and Direction, 

104. Faith and Sound Speech, ...... 

105. Faith and Enemies, ...... 

106. Faith and Forgiveness, 

107. Faith and Conformity, . . 

108. Faith and Missions, 

109. Faith and Fruitfulness, 

110. Faith and Union, 

111. Faith and Contest, 

112. Faith and Overcoming, 

113. Faith and Temptations, 



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114. Faith and Discouragements, 205 

115. Faith and Surprises, 206 

116. Faith and Honesty, 206 

117. Faith and Confession, 208 

118. Faith and Discernment, 209 

119. Faith and Looking to Jesus, 210 

120. Faith and Experience, ...... 211 

121. Faith and Innocence, 211 

122. Faith and Benevolence, 212 

123. Faith and Variety, 213 

124. Faith and Joy, 213 

125. Faith and Fellowship, 216 

126. Faith and Fulness of Christ, 217 

127. Faith and Christ Compassion, 217 

128. Faith and Christ's Prayer, 218 

129. How to Enter this Life of Faith, . . . .219 

130. Cleansing the Sanctuary, 222 

131. Residue of the Spirit, 232 

132. The Fulness of God, 240 

133. Promised Rest, 248 



THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENNIUM. 



The time for the beginning of the Millen- 
nium is near at hand. Let us therefore fear, 
lest a promise being left us of entering into 
his rest any of you should seem to come short 
of it. There remaineth therefore a rest to the 
people of God. Seeing therefore it remain- 
eth that some must enter therein, and they 
to whom it was preached entered not in be- 
cause of unbelief. Let us labor therefore to 
enter into that rest lest any fall after the same 
example of unbelief. — Heb. iv. 

This rest spoken of in this chapter is of a 
fourfold nature. First, when we are saved 
from our sins by faith we get rest. Second, 
when we receive Christ as a perfect Savior, 
and realize he keeps us in perfect peace, re^ 
alizing he preserves us from all evil, and that 
he preserves us in all conditions of life, we 
find rest to our souls. Third, if we die in our 
first love, or if we die after we have received 



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this rest to our souls by learning of Christ, we 
will enter into rest until the millennium is set 
up on earth, then will our blessed Savior ap- 
pear to them that are looking for him. Fourth, 
then the rest of one thousand years begins, and 
God will locate the camp of the saints and 
the beloved city on earth, and will descend 
from heaven and will occupy this "beloved" 
city for one thousand years with his people. 

A VIEW OF THE BELOVED CITY. 

This beloved city will be located on earth. 
It will be beautiful to behold. It will be the 
garden of Eden restored. Beautiful bowers, 
blooming and fruitful, will adorn it. This 
blooming and fruiting will be for the people 
of God. It will be a city in which Jesus and 
his bride are to dwell for one thousand years. 
All tears will be wiped away and sweet rest 
given to all its inhabitants. 

And I heard a great voice out of heaven 
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with 
men, and he will dwell with them, and they 
shall be his people, and God himself shall be 
with them, and be their God. — Rev. xxi. 3. 



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And God shall wipe all tears from their eyes; 
and there shall be no more death, neither sor- 
row, nor crying, neither shall there be any 
more pain, for the former things are passed 
away. And he that sat upon the throne said, 
Behold, I make all things new. And he said 
unto me, Write; for these words are true and 
faithful. 

THE GARDEN OF EDEN RESTORED. 

Our world has grown old and faded by sin, 
but Jesus will open up again its beautiful riv- 
ers, give back its precious fruits, its gentle 
breezes, its singing birds, and in the cool of 
the day God will come to gladden our hearts. 

And he that sat upon the throne said, Be- 
hold, I make all things new. — Rev. xxi. 5. 

THE BELOVED CITY. 

It will be situated somewhere on earth. 
And they went up on the breadth of the earth 
and compassed the camp of the saints about, 
and the beloved city; and fire came down 
from God out of heaven and devoured them. 
— Rev. xx. 9. Satan is to make this assault 
on the beloved city after he is loosed out of 



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prison. This proves clearly that the city will 
be somewhere on the earth. 

THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS. 

When the tabernacle was set up by Moses 
it will be noticed there were three things: ist, 
the tabernacle; 2d, the holy place, or mercy 
seat; 3d, and the camp. So likewise in Eden 
restored. There will be the holy city where 
all God's people shall dwell. First, the one 
hundred and forty and four thousand on Mount 
Sion with Jesus. And will dwell with great 
joy and peace in the most holy place with 
Christ, and those who are seeking diligently 
to be admitted into the same place are in the 
tabernacle, but not ready for translation. 
Third, the camp are those who are babes in 
Christ, and are not inside the tabernacle, but 
belong to the city. This is to be the condi- 
tion of the church when Satan is let out of 
prison. He will be so enraged at her pros- 
perity and growth, glory and beauty, since he 
left the world. He decides at once to go out 
into the nations of the earth, raise an immense 
army, and proceed to compass the camp and 






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the beloved city, and attempt to capture the 
saints by the force of arms. He doubtless 
will attempt, when he is let out of prison, to 
enter the beloved city as he did before in the 
garden of Eden, but he will find the city so 
strongly guarded by the holy angels that he 
nor any other vile spirit nor human being that 
is not washed in the blood of the Lamb can 
enter its sacred gates. Here Satan meets his 
final doom. God will consume him with fire. 

THE INNOCENCE OF THE BEAUTIFUL CITY. 

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, 
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; 
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling 
together, and a little child shall lead them. 
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their 
young ones shall lie down together and the 
lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the 
sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, 
and the weaned child shall put his hand on 
the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor 
destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth 
shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as 
the waters cover the sea. — Isa. xi. 6—9. 



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Therefore with joy shall we draw water out 
of the wells of salvation. And in that day 
shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his 
name, declare his doings among the people, 
make mention that his name is exalted. Sing 
unto the Lord, for he hath done excellent 
things; this is known in all the earth. Cry 
out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for 
great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst 
of thee. — Isa. xii. 3-6. 

TOIL AND LABOR CEASES. 

Toil, labor, and suffering to support and 
provide for the body will cease. The land 
shall rest from the tillage of man. This is 
typified by the jubilee every seven years. Six 
years shalt thou sow the field, and six years 
thou shalt prune the vineyard, and gather in 
the fruit thereof; but in the seventh year shall 
be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath 
for the Lord. Thou shalt neither sow thy 
field, nor prune thy vineyard. — Lev. xxv. 3-5. 
Note, this sabbath is unto the Lord. He is 
to provide without the hand of man to help 
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going on, but now we are to have the seventh 
period of the world's six thousand years of 
toil and labor and one thousand of rest, which 
is the millennium period. Who shall enter 
into the most holy place, and what will they 
do? Those only who have been made free 
from the law of sin and death that is in our 
bodies, and it must be done by the law of the 
spirit of life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Those 
that enter in shall reign with Christ, that is, 
they will be employed in the administration 
of the government of Christ, and shall rest 
from their works as God did from his. For 
he that is entered into his rest, he also hath 
ceased from his own works, as God did from 
his. — Heb. iv. 10. The church is God's house, 
composed of strong and weak; those that can 
bear strong meat and those who must live on 
the sincere milk of the word, even babes in 
Christ. 

Here is God's dwelling place when all things 
are put in order by our Savior. Ye also, as 
lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an 
holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices 
acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. — 1 Peter 



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ii. 5. This is the purchased possession — the 
church by Christ for God's house, and the 
earth purchased for a home for the church for 
one thousand years. But if I tarry long, that 
thou mayest know how thou oughtest to be- 
have thyself in the house of God which is the 
church of the living God, the pillar and ground 
of the truth. — 1 Tim. iii. 15. 

Now therefore ye are no more strangers 
and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the 
saints and the household of God; and are built 
upon the foundation of the apostles and 
prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief 
corner stone; in whom all the building fitly 
framed together groweth unto an holy temple 
in the Lord: in whom ye all are builded to- 
gether for an habitation of God through the 
Spirit.—- -Eph. ii. 19-22. But those that wait 
upon the Lord shall inherit the earth. — Ps. 
xxxvii. 9. But the meek shall inherit the 
earth. — Ps. xxxvii. 11. 

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit 
the earth.— Ps. xxxvii. 22. 

The righteous shall inherit the land and 
dwell therein forever. — Ps. xxxvii. 29. 



CHRIST AND HIS KINGDOM. 



Behold, I make all things new. — Rev. xxi. 5. 

I. WHAT ADAM LOST. 

And God said, Let us make man in our im- 
age, after our likeness: and let them have do- 
minion over the fish of the sea, and over the 
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over 
all the earth, and over every creeping thing 
that creepeth upon the earth. — Gen. i. 26. 

He lost his divine image and likeness. 

So God created man in his image, in the 
image of God created he him. — Gen. i. 27. 

Here is the beginning of sin in our race, in 
losing this divine image and likeness. It is 
the beginning of our loss of power over all 
that pertains to this world. It is the begin- 
ning of the reign of moral darkness and our 
subjugation to the power of Satan. Here is 
where our race fell into the gall of bitterness 
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from the children of God to the children of 
Satan. Dead in trespasses and in sins. 

3. All the creation went down with the first 
Adam in this great fall. 

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast 
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast 
eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee 
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the 
ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat 
of it all the days of thy life. — Gen. iii. 17. 

Note the words of this text, "Cursed is the 
ground for thy sake." This curse fell upon 
all living, animated nature. This put Adam 
under a fixed law that in disposition all living 
things should be in harmony with him. 

While this is true there is another universal 
law of self-protection, and God has provided 
all living things with weapons of defense. 
The honey bee with his sting, the serpent 
with his poison, the cock with his spurs, the 
lion with his claws. In some way all living 
things have some way of defending, or some 
way of escape from danger of the loss of life 
or infliction of pain. 

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eth and travaileth in pain together until now. 
And not only they, but ourselves also, which 
have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we our- 
selves groaning within ourselves, waiting for 
the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our 
body. — Rom. viii. 22, 23. 

Note the words, " The whole creation groan- 
eth and travaileth in pain." Here is another 
universal law that embraced Adam and all 
living creatures, pain — travailing in pain 
through the . whole of life, from the highest 
to the lowest order of life. 



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Wherein in time past ye walked according 
to the course of this world, according to the 
prince of the power of the air, the spirit that 
now worketh in the children of disobedience. 
— Eph. ii. 2. 

It is now clear to be seen that Satan has 
superseded Adam and taken control of him 
and his posterity, and his power over all liv- 
ing creatures is as great perhaps as was 
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Adam and all his posterity of their primeval 
happiness. 

Wherefore do ye spend money for that 
which is not bread, and your labor for that 
which satisfieth not. — Isa. lv. 2. Here we 
see the power of Satan manifested. The 
whole human family are controlled by him so 
as to pursue that course in life that brings to 
them a constant dissatisfaction. 

In whom the god of this world hath blinded 
the minds of them which believe not. — 2 Cor. 
iv. 4. 

III. CHRIST THE SECOND ADAM. 

Our Redeemer who has bought us. In 
whom also after that ye believed, ye were 
sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which 
is the earnest of our inheritance until the re- 
demption of the purchased possession, unto 
the praise of his glory. — Eph. i. 13, 14. 

Note the words, "The purchased posses- 
sion." Christ has bought back all that Adam 
lost, soul, body, and our inheritance in time 
and in eternity. For ye are bought with a 
price, therefore glorify God in your body and 



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in your spirits, which are God's. This shows 
us that we are no longer under Satan when 
we arrive at full redemption. 

The righteous shall inherit the land and 
dwell therein for evermore. — Ps. xxvii. 29. 
This is a clear statement that the church and 
Christ will literally inherit again this earth, 
and regain what the first Adam lost. The 
pleasures of Eden will be enjoyed again by 
the people of God. 

The meek shall inherit the earth and shall 
delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 
— Ps. xxxvii. 1 1. 

If the Son therefore shall make you free ye 
shall be free indeed. — John viii. 36. 

Behold, I make all things new. And God 
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. — 
Rev. vii. 17. 



THE THREE GREAT DISPENSATIONS. 



Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, 
and he will dwell with them, and they shall 
be his people. — Rev. xxii. 3. 

I. This dispensation of the Holy Ghost,which 
is the first division mentioned by Peter. I 
will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh ; and 
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, 
and your old men shall dream dreams. — Acts 
ii. 27. It began at Pentecost. In his great 
work he is silent and unseen. He has taken 
the place of our Savior, who was both heard 
and seen. To see him and hear him was 
walking by sight. To be led by the Spirit is 
walking by faith and not by sight. It is a dis- 
pensation of suffering, self-denial, persecution, 
daily crucifixion, poverty, and great labor, 
looking for our reward in the unseen world, 
where we know not what we shall be when 
we get there. 

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Spirit will change his mode or manner of work 
in the church. For over eighteen hundred 
years the Spirit has been poured out upon all 
flesh. In the introduction of the Son's dis- 
pensation, even our Savior's personal reign 
on earth, the Holy Ghost will be poured out 
upon the church in a peculiar manner. I will 
pour out in those days of my Spirit (upon my 
servants and upon my handmaidens), and they 
shall prophesy. — Acts ii. 17. Here the male 
and female are to be endued with a power in 
prophesying hitherto unknown. And it will 
be a necessity to the introduction of the dis- 
pensation of the Son or the beginning of the 
millennium, the great jubilee of the church of 
Christ on earth. 

III. The dispensation of the Son. It will 
begin at the close of the Gentile age. 

For I would not, brethren, that ye should 
be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in 
your own conceits ; that blindness in part is 
happened to Israel ; until the fullness of the 
Gentiles be come in. — Rom. xi. 25. This dis- 
pensation will be a time in which Christ shall 
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people. Satan will be bound for one thou- 
sand years. And he laid hold on the dragon, 
the old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, 
and bound him a thousand years. — Rev. xx. 2. 

IV. Christ shall appear only to his servants 
and handmaids ; those on whom this second 
baptism is to fall. So Christ was once offered 
to bear the sins of many ; and unto them that 
look for him shall he appear the second time 
without sin unto salvation. — Heb. ix. 28. 

And when the chief Shepherd shall appear 
ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth 
not away. — 1 Peter v. 4. 

V. The third dispensation, or the dispen- 
sation of the Father. This dispensation will 
begin when the one thousand years are ended. 
When Satan shall be destroyed and the 
wicked judged and their place assigned them 
which shall endure forever and forever. When 
Christ shall say to his bride, Come, ye blessed 
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared 
for you from the foundation of the world, — 
Matt. xxv. 34. 



THE LOVE OF CHRIST IN THE MILLENNIUM. 



Beloved now are we the sons of God, and it 
doth not yet appear what we shall be; but 
we know that, when he shall appear, we shall 
be like him, for we shall see him as he is. — 
I John iii. 2. 

The love of our Savior as presented to us in 
the Bible is incomprehensible. " It doth not yet 
appear." We can not see its height, depth, 
length, nor breadth while in this present dis- 
pensation. But when he shall appear we 
shall be like him. Not until he appears in his 
own peculiar dispensation and opens our un- 
derstanding will we be capable of compre- 
hending the greatness of his love. We 
shall see him as he is. Not simply his 
tangible form with garments glistening and 
white as light, but that love that flows out 
like a deluge, as he himself expresses it. 
As the Father hath loved me so have I loved 

you. We now look at his brooding love as 
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he expresses it in these words : How often 
would I have gathered thy children together 
even as a hen gathereth her chickens under 
her wings, and ye would not. — Matt, xxiii. 37. 
We realize this brooding love in this dis- 
pensation of the Holy Ghost and its wonder- 
ful and exceeding sweetness to our souls. In 
this dispensation we dwell now with delight 
upon his expanded love. That Christ may 
dwell in your hearts by faith ; that ye, being 
rooted and grounded in love, may be able to 
comprehend with all saints what is the 
breadth, and length, and depth, and height ; 
and to know the love of Christ. Here we 
walk with our heads in the sunshine of his 
love ; here we bathe our consciences in this 
expanded love. Here our souls float in celes- 
tial satisfaction upon the surging billows of 
this love. We think we comprehend this ex- 
panded love • because our souls are en- 
larged to that degree we are lost in 
love • and our joy has reached an exalted 
plane that is beyond all expression and 
beyond the grasp of our thoughts. We in 
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consolation upon our Savior's immutable love. 
The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, say- 
ing, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlast- 
ing love ; therefore with loving kindness have 
I drawn thee.— Jer. xxxi. 3. 

This view of his immutable love, when it 
falls upon us in its broad-sheeted, consoling 
glory and divine riches, our souls take wings 
of faith, and like the eagle's, and fly away to 
Jesus, in spirit and in truth at the right hand 
of God on high, to give vent to our pent-up 
gratitude at his sacred feet. 

In this dispensation we behold with delight 
the love of Christ as we see him lifting heavy 
burdens from the hearts of penitent sinners, 
wearied like the prodigal son, and see them 
in their raptures of joy as they are pardoned, 
obeying the small still voice of Jesus when he 
says to them, Go home to thy friends and tell 
them how great things the Lord hath done 
for thee and hath had compassion on thee. — 
Mark v. 19. 

In this dispensation we can glory in the 
yearning love of Christ. We dwell on it un- 
til we fall into deep sympathy with him and 



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listen to his yearning words that melt our 
hearts, and floods of tears gush from our eyes. 
For the Son of man is come to seek and to 
save that which was lost. — Luke xix. 10. 

In this dispensation we take comfort and 
courage in times of bereavement and adver- 
sity and afflictions in drawing upon our Sav- 
ior's tender love. Our children, one by one, 
may pass away from our homes ; a good 
neighbor, whose heart is knit together in love 
to our own, may be called up to heaven ; we 
may be laid on our beds of sickness, yet it 
comes to our souls with healing, blissful 
cheer when we hear his blessed words, It is 
I ; be not afraid. — John vi. 20. 

In this dispensation we sometimes go down 
to Jordan's stormy banks and view the cold 
stream of death, and shudder when we think 
that the day, the hour, will come when we 
must go alone into this stream (and yet not 
alone), and as we pass through the valley of 
the shadow our heartstrings must break and 
all our ties to this life shall be broken. In 
these solemn reflections our hearts run up and 
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of our Savior to support us. And lo, we find 
his endearing love in this expression : Having 
loved his own which were in the world he 
loved them unto the end. — John xiii. 

Now let us pass over the line drawn by this 
dispensation of Christ during his personal 
reign on earth, which will be the millennial 
glory of his love. When this glorious period 
in the history of the church shall come to 
pass, then our eyes shall be opened to see and 
understand what the prophet meant when he 
said : Then shall the moon be confounded 
and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts 
shall reign in Mount Zion and Jerusalem, and 
before his ancients gloriously. — Isa. xxiv. 23 

The time will come when the universal ho- 
liness of all the Lord's dear children shall be 
seen, and shall excel in strength and blaze 
with a luster that can come from no other 
source than the power of our blessed Savior's 
love. Then we shall realize the true meaning 
of the prophet when he says : Thy people 
shall be all righteousness. — Isa. lx. 21. 

In that day shall the Lord defend the in- 
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among them at that day shall be as David ; 
and the house of David shall be as God, as 
the angel of the Lord before them. — Zach. xii. 8. 

In this millennial dispensation, when we 
shall behold the bride, the Lamb's wife, 
crowned with celestial music interlaced with 
fadeless joy unspeakable, and full of glory, 
and all her tears and all her sorrows will be 
rolled away by the strong arm of the love of 
her faithful bridegroom as he brings her home 
again. 

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, 

and come to Zion with songs and everlasting 

joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy 

and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall 

flee away. — Isa. xxxv. 10. 

In this glorious dispensation all the chafings 
in the church caused by scoffers and the scorn- 
ful shall pass away never to return. And from 
prisons, and fires, and cross-bearing, and 
shame shall Zion arise above them all by the 
power of the love of Jesus to an exalted 
height that will cause a shout in heaven and 
on earth that will be like the sound of many 
waters. 



Mii^knnial Day-Star. 31 

Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated 
so that no man went through thee, I will make 
thee an eternal excellence, a joy of many gen- 
erations. Thy sun shall no more go down : 
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the 
Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the 
days of thy mourning be ended. — Isa. lx. 20. 

This glorious dispensation will reveal that 
by the love of Jesus we are enriched in all 
knowledge and in all utterance. No longer 
to see through a glass darkly, but face to 
face. No longer to know in part, but to know 
even as we are known. A sweet familiarity 
will exist between every saint and his Savior : 
and a note in the song of Solomon will be sung 
anew. My beloved is mine and I am his. 

And they shall teach no, more every man 
his neighbor and every man his brother, say- 
ing, Know ye the Lord : for they all shall 
know me from the least to the greatest of 
them. — Jer. xxxi. 34. 

In that day it shall be our kingdom will be 
no longer locked up in our hearts as it is now; 
for the kingdom is now within us, and is right- 
eousness, joy, and peace in the Holy Ghost. 



32 Mili^nniai, Day-Star. 

But then the Lord Jesus shall set his badge on 
each of his dear children, and that badge shall 
be holiness unto the Lord. 

In that day shall there be upon the bells of 
the horses, Holiness unto the Lord; and the 
pots in the Lord's house shall be like the 
bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Je- 
rusalem and Judah shall be holiness unto the 
Lord. — Zech. xiv. 20, 21. 

It is" sweet to our souls to receive the light 
of conviction. When we bend to that light 
until it brings us into the valley of humility 
where we get the light of conversion, and 
bending and yielding to this light until it brings 
us into the broad plains of perfect love that 
casteth out fear. But how much sweeter it 
will be when we run on in this way in the 
path of the just that shall shine brighter and 
brighter unto the perfect day when the voice 
of the prophet shall be heard with glad- 
ness. 

Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the 
glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. The 
sons of them that afflicted thee shall come 
bending to thee: and they that despised thee 



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shall bow themselves down at thy feet. — Isa. 
lx. 1, 14. 

In this dispensation the curse will be taken 
from the earth, and there will be a copious 
flow of milk and honey from one corner of 
the whole earth to all other corners. Even 
the heathen shall be astonished in that day 
that such bountiful stores come rolling down 
the mountains and from the valleys of the 
earth. 

For thy seed shall be prosperous, the vine 
shall give fruit, and the ground shall give her 
increase, and the heavens shall give their dew, 
and I will cause the remnant of this people to 
possess all things. — Zech. viii. 12. 

In this long-desired day of Zion Jesus shall 
see the travail of his soul and be satisfied. 
Our long period of waiting patiently for the 
coming of the Lord to receive us will open 
like the roses in the valley to display their 
beauty and send abroad their sweet fragrance 
of gratitude to God. 

And the daughters of Tyre shall be there 
with a gift: even the rich among the people 
shall entreat thy favor. — Ps. xlv. 12. 



34 MixIvKnniai, Day-Star. 

In this glorious jubilee year of Zion not 
one soul on earth shall fail to honor Zion as 
the Queen of Sheba honored King Solomon 
with many rich and costly gifts as an expres- 
sion of their admiration of her beauty, and 
earnestly plead for her favors. 

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and 
their queens thy nursing mothers: and they 
shall bow down to thee with their faces to- 
ward the earth and lick up the dust of thy 
feet, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, 
for they shall not be ashamed that waiteth for 
me. — Isa. xlix. 23. 

We say it is good to have health and wealth, 
but it is better still to be able to say that we 
are rich in faith and love, and know that no 
good thing will our Lord withhold from them 
that love him and love his appearing. But in 
that day when we see all the good that infinite 
love can bestow, then all the powers of Satan 
be shaken and his mighty hosts shall tremble. 

And it shall be to me a name of joy, a 
praise and an honor before all the nations of 
the earth, which shall hear all the good I do 
unto them: and they shall fear and tremble 



Mm,ENNIAI, Day-Star. 35 

for all the goodness for all the prosperity that 
I procure unto it. — Jer. xxxiii. 9. 

Our world has long been groaning under 
the weight of many troubles sweeping over 
every generation for ages past. From the 
lips of the little child of but a few days comes 
the wail of trouble reaching down to the gray- 
headed sire. There is not an hour in the day 
nor in the darkness of the night but what 
every second of fleeting time is loaded down 
with the mournful cry from the children of 
men. A man born of woman is of but few 
days, and they are full of trouble. But in that 
day the white dove of peace shall extend her 
wings over Zion for one thousand years, and 
the church shall rest. 

And he shall judge among the nations, and 
shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat 
their swords into plowshares and their spears 
into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up 
sword against nation, neither shall they learn 
war any more. — Isa. ii. 4. 

In this glorious reign of our blessed Re- 
deemer his love shall fill the whole earth, so 
that the war demon shall roar no more for a 



36 Mii^enniai, Day-Star. 

thousand years — a raging lion going up and 
down the earth seeking whom he may devour. 
He maketh the war to cease unto the ends 
of the earth; he breaketh the bow, he cutteth 
the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariots 
with fire. — Ps. xlvi. 9. 



MOUNT OLIVET THE LOCATION FOR THE MILLEN- 
NIAL CITY. 



And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew 
the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither 
with his disciples. — John xviii. 2. 

When we consider the history and peculiar 
life of our Savior in connection with Mount 
Olivet we find that he made this place a favor- 
ite spot on our earth while he m as doing the 
work his Father had sent him to do and finish. 
It was on this mount that every important 
part of that work was portrayed in a figura- 
tive and symbolic form. The object of the 
Savior for this course is plain to be seen when 
we take a broad view of his manner and 
method of work in connection with his reve- 
lation to his church. It was on this mount 
where he displayed his power over death, and 
proclaimed to the world that he was the res- 
urrection and the life. 

2. Here was the place where he taught by 



38 Mii^enniai, Day-Star. 

his living example the importance of holy, 
spiritual, and earnest devotion; for here was 
the place where he spent many hours in med- 
itation and prayer with his disciples, and 
sometimes all alone. 

3. On this mount he gave to his disciples 
and the world the full scope of all true proph- 
ecy. 

4. On this mount he manifested to the world 
his deep sympathy for sinners. Although Je- 
rusalem was past redemption, yet he yearned 
over the awful doom that awaited that wicked 
city. How touching and heart-melting must 
it have been to have heard him utter those 
wonderful words, How often would I have 
gathered thee, and to witness the flowing of 
his sympathizing tears. 

5. At one time while on this mount he sent 
two disciples away for a colt on which man 
had never sat, to ride into Jerusalem. He 
waited on this mount until the colt was brought. 
The colt was covered with the garments of 
them that loved him. The road that he was 
to pass over was carpeted with their garments 
and the branches of the trees. While he was 



MH.LENNIAI, DAY-STAR. 39 

on this wonderful march to Jerusalem down 
near the base of the mountain a wave of in- 
spiration seemed to roll over the whole multi- 
tude, filling every soul that was not his enemy, 
even the babes and unweaned children. And 
a new song of praise was spontaneously ut- 
tered by all, using the same words, saying, 
Blessed be the King that cometh in the name 
of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the 
highest. — Luke xix. 38. 

At the beginning of the millennium Christ 
will explain why he took this course, why he 
rode the colt, why he was so honored that 
day by his followers, why it took place on this 
mountain. This is all symbolic of the triumph 
of the King of saints, and the glory that shall 
be given him by his saints at the day when 
the millennial period shall have come. His 
enemies were greatly troubled on that day by 
the shouting of the multitude, for that was a 
symbol of the horror that shall come on all 
them that believe not at his appearing on the 
mount at the beginning of the millennium. 

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a 
white horse ; and he that sat upon him was 



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called Faithful and True, and in righteousness 
he doth judge and make war. And he hath 
on his vesture and on his thigh a name writ- 
ten, King of kings, and Lord of lords. — Rev. 
xix. ii, 1 6. 

6. The Passover. — The passover was an all- 
important factor in preparing the way for our 
great salvation. And on this mount, while 
with his disciples, he sent two of them to pre- 
pare the passover, for when it was ready he 
descended this mount to take it. 

The Atonement. — Would you see the first 
shower of the blood of the atonement? Go 
to this mount of sacred wonders. It was in 
the garden of Gethsemane that Jesus made 
the first payment on the purchase of redemp- 
tion. Gethsemane means a winepress. He 
was crushed under the weight of our sins 
until the blood of atonement was produced. 
Adam fell in the garden of Eden. Jesus, the 
second Adam, bought us back in a garden. 

Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, 
and thy garments like him that treadeth in 
the winefat. I have trodden the winepress 
alone. — Isa. lxiii. 2, 3. 



Mii/lenniai, D ay-Star. 41 

7. The Divine Agony. — There are ministers 
of the gospel to-day who know from personal 
experience what it is to be sorrowful even 
unto death in agony pleading the merits of the 
atonement. It was all-important on the part 
of our Savior, and has continued so from that 
day until now. It had its beginning on Mount 
Olivet. 

8. Angelic Ministration. — It is God's plan 
in saving souls through his Son to use both 
men and angels as instruments to accomplish 
the work. Christ was human as well as di- 

* vine. Here on this mount it crops out that as 
Christ needed an angel's help on his human 
side, we will have them too in our suffering 
bodies while battling for the kingdom of glory 
in like manner to strengthen us. 

9. Here, too, is the place where he was be- 
trayed. 

10. On this mount he gave his last blessing 
to his faithful followers just before he took 
his glorious flight to heaven to prepare a place 
for us. 

1 1 . From this mount he ascended to heaven 
to remain until the fullness of time should come. 

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42 Millennial Day-Star. 

Whom the heavens must receive until the 
times of restitution of all things, which God 
hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy 
prophets since the world began. — Acts iii. 21. 

12. The Angelic Proclamation. — Two men 
stood by them in white apparel, which also 
said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing 
up into heaven? This same Jesus which is 
taken up from you into heaven shall so come 
in like manner as ye have seen him go into 
heaven. — Acts i. 11. 

He was seen by none but his own when he 
left the world. When he returns he will ap- 
pear to none but those who are looking for 
him. He is to come without sin unto salta- 
tion. The first time he came to battle with 
sin, the second time he will come to those 
who are saved. 

13. He will return to Mount Olivet. — And 
his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount 
of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the 
east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in 
the midst toward the east and toward the 
west, and there shall be a very great valley. — 
Zech. xiv. 



Millennial Day-Star. 43 

This will be literally fulfilled, and in this 
great valley will be the millennium city. 

And they went up on the breadth of the 
earth, and compassed the camp of the saints 
about, and the beloved city: and fire came 
down from God out of heaven and devoured 
them. — Rev. xx. 9. 

Mount Olivet a place of Sacred Wonders. — 
On this identical spot is where the beloved 
city shall stand. Mount Olivet, drenched 
with divine blood, baptized with divine tears, 
trembled with the shock of divine groanings, 
baptized with a farewell benediction. The 
place appointed by our Redeemer for the re- 
union of the bridegroom and his bride. 



THE PASSOVER. 



There is a set time with God for all great 
events in the history of redemption, a set time 
for the Israelites to go out of bondage, a set 
time for the birth of Christ, a set time for 
Christ to eat the passover with his disciples. 
When our Savior was in that upper room he 
had but one great desire in his heart, and that 
was a burning one, and that was the glorify- 
ing his Father's name, and his Father glorify- 
ing his Son. Just before he entered that up- 
per room he was troubled, and uttered this 
prayer, Father, glorify thy name. The an- 
swer to this prayer was given with an audible 
voice by his Father, I have glorified it, and 
will glorify it again. — John xii. 27, 28. When 
he had finished all his work that had to be 
done in that upper room, he lifted up his eyes 
to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come, 
glorify thy Son that thy Son may glorify thee. — 
John xvii. 1. 



Millennial Day-Star. 45 

Our Savior had on a former occasion said 
to his disciples, With desire I have desired 
to eat this passover with you before I suf- 
fer. And why? First, it would close out 
the ceremonial law; second, the old covenant 
would be abolished; third, it would remove 
the vail from the face of God's people; fourth, 
it would introduce the new covenant; fifth, it 
would diclose a divine secret; sixth, the 
church would go out of bondage to the law; 
seventh, the church would enter into spiritual 
freedom; eighth, the Spirit poured out upon 
all flesh; ninth, Christ would enter upon his 
mediatorial work in heaven; tenth, his church 
from that hour took up her grand march from 
spiritual Egypt to reach the "beloved city," 
and would begin that wonderful journey of 
over eighteen hundred years. She has passed 
over the blood red sea of martyrdom. She 
has passed the wilderness of the dark ages. 
She has passed the bombarding of infidelity. 
She has fought her way through heathenism 
and idolatry. She has all this behind her, and 
she has built a bulwark out of Bibles between 
her and all her enemies, printed in many 



46 Milennial Day-Star. 

tongues; a fortification as high as heaven, as 
deep as eternity; the very gates of hell can 
not prevail against it. 

As it is written, Walk about Zion, and go 
aroun,d about her; tell her towers thereof. 
Mark well her bulwarks, consider her pal- 
aces; that ye may tell it to the generations 
following. 

For this God is our God forever and ever; 
he will be our guide even unto death. — Ps. 
xlviii. 12. 

And now the day-star is about to arise in 
her heart. And from that hour his bride shall 
go from under bondage again. She passed 
out of the bondage of Egypt the next day 
after the last, the passover. 

And when she ate the passover the last 
time on earth she did that which she had 
never done beforehand that was to have Jesus 
personally present at the table and to eat with 
him. It was eaten in the night at the begin- 
ing of it, and it was eaten in the night at its 
close. The next morning she set out on her 
journey to the millennial city ; now free again 
from the bondage of Egypt first, and second 



Millennial Day-Star. 47 

from bondage to the ceremonial law. She is 
now drawing near to the beloved city, the mil- 
lennial period. And her Lord will meet her 
again where he left her at the same Mount 
Olivet to do what he had promised to do 
when he instituted the sacrament bread and 
wine. But I say unto you I will not 
drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine until 
that day when I drink it anew with you in 
my Father's kingdom. When this comes to 
pass she will go out of bondage the third 
time. Her body that has been travailing in 
pain for 1800 years will be subject to vanity 
no longer. The world, the flesh, and the devil 
have held her in bondage all these years. But 
when he comes on Mount Olivet he will say 
again, With desire have I desired to eat this 
passover with you before I shall see the trav- 
ail of my soul and be satisfied ; before I enter 
with you upon that joy which was set before 
me when I came to earth to be crucified for 
you. When he comes to Mount Olivet to 
meet his bride, and supper being ended, 
the gateway into Eden rest will be opened. 
His bride will enter with him. Here will be 



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the beginning of that rest that remains to the 
people of God. — Heb. iv. 

The Lord's day spoken of by John in Rev- 
elation is that notable day that may be appro- 
priately denominated the day of freedom. 
This day was the fifteenth day of the first 
month after the Israelites ate the pass- 
over on the Levitical sabbath, which 
was on the fourteenth day of the first 
month. This fifteenth day was their Mon- 
day. It was the first day of the seven 
feast days, and was kept by them as a sabbath 
of rest. They had strict orders that when 
they reached the land of Canaan they were 
not to eat of the fruit of that land until on this 
fifteenth day of the first month; they were to 
offer a sheaf of wheat to the priest, which was 
the first fruit of the land; a type of Christ, the 
first fruit of the resurrection. Also a he lamb 
on the same day, a type of Christ. And 
bread and wine, a type of the Lord's supper. 
This fifteenth day was indeed the day of free- 
dom. From this day, our Sabbath, Jesus 
arose from the dead, which is now our Sun- 
day or Christian Sabbath, our day of rest and 



Mixi/enniaIv Day-Star. 49 

freedom. It was on this same day 5 the fif- 
teenth of the first month, that the Spirit was 
poured out at Pentecost, and was kept as a 
sacred day, which was just fifty days after 
the first fast day that Jesus appeared to his 
disciples after his resurrection. And on the 
same day the apostles took the sacrament. % 
Hence, it is our Christian Sabbath, which we 
now keep, our long-hoped for Sabbath of a 
thousand years. — Lev. xxiii. It will be on 
the Sabbath day after we eat and drink with 
our Lord anew of the fruit of the vine that 
he will escort us into our old Eden home, 
which was typified by the fiftieth jubilee year. 



COVENANT OF GRACE. 



This covenant began with Abraham. — Gen. 



xvn. I, 2. 



The covenant of grace God made with 
Abraham is the common center of all the wis- 
dom of the Old and New Testament Script- 
ures, Christ being the divine illuminator of 
all its doctrines, promises, rewards, achieve- 
ments, and its final outcome, and the display 
of its divine glory. The millennium will be 
a revelation of the truth of this statement. As 
the stars in the sky in the midnight hour all 
join with the moon when it is full, and the 
sky clear in harmony, pouring their rays of 
light on the earth for the benefit of man; so 
the Scriptures, with all their feasts, sabbaths, 
ceremonies, ordinances, prophecies, and cov- 
enants, miracles, and kings; with all the 
apostles, teachers, evangelists, pastors, preach- 
ers, helps, and elders, and deacons, throw 
their light upon this new covenant of grace, 



Millennial D ay-Star. 51 

Christ being the center of this covenant and 
the chief light. As the moon borrows all its 
light from the sun, so Jesus borrows all his 
light from his heavenly Father, who is hidden 
behind our earthly weakness, and in harmony 
with his Son and the Scriptures the light of 
this glorious covenant falls upon the pathway 
of the church of God as she marches on to 
her long-sought millennial rest. In this cove- 
nant all the writers of the Old and New Tes- 
taments have come in with their timber and 
stones dressed and squared; and without the 
sound of a hammer their work from Abra- 
ham down to John the Baptist, and from John 
the Baptist through the age of the twelve 
apostles, the great temple of Christianity has 
been erected, and stands out before its enemies 
of all ages as the house of God, which is the 
church of the living God, the pillar and 
ground of truth, Christ the chief corner-stone, 
and the prophets and apostles being the foun- 
dation. They that would be wise, and rooted 
and grounded in love, and girt with truth, and 
wise as serpents and harmless as doves, let 
them study this covenant of grace. First, 



52 MlIvIvKNNIAl^ Day-Star. 

Abraham's part in this covenant was " The 
obedience of Faith." This is the chief duty 
of all God's children, an obedient faith. 

God's part in this covenant is : 

i. To make Abraham the father of many 
nations. 

Neither shall thy name any more be called 
Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for 
a father of many nations have I made thee. — 
Gen. xvii. 5. 

2. To establish his covenant with Abra- 
ham's seed. 

And I will establish my covenant between 
me and thee and thy seed after thee in their 
generations for an everlasting covenant. — 
Gen. xvii. 7. 

3. To give to Abraham and his seed all the 
land of Canaan for an inheritance. 

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed 
after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, 
all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting pos- 
session; and I will be their God. — Gen. xvii. 8. 

4. Abraham's faith should be counted to 
them for righteousness, and all believers to 
the end of the world. 



Milennial Day-Star. 53 

Know ye therefore that they which are of 
faith, the same are the children of Abraham. — - 
Gal. iii. 7. Even as Abraham believed God, 
and it was accounted to him for righteous- 
ness. — Gal. iii. 6. 

5. That the earth should be filled with the 
glory of the Lord. 

But I have pardoned according to thy word. 
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be 
filled with the glory of the Lord. — Num. xiv. 
20, 21. 

6. That all the families of the earth should 
be blessed in Abraham and his seed. 

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the 
earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the 
west, and to the east, and to the north, and to 
the south; and in thee and thy seed shall all 
the families of the earth be blessed. 

7. That Abraham should be the heir of the 
world. 

For the promise, that he should be the heir 
of the world was not to Abraham, or to his 
seed, through the law, but through the right- 
eousness of faith. — Rom. iv. 13. 

8. That the Holy Ghost should be given to 



54 Millennial Day-Star. 

the church. I will pour my Spirit upon thy 
seed, and my blessings upon thine offspring. — 
Isa. xliv. 3. 

9. That the righteous should inherit the 
earth. 

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit 
the earth; and they that be cursed shall be 
cut off. 

10. That all things should be restored in 
Christ. 

Whom the heavens must receive until the 

times of restitution of all things. — Acts iii. 21. 

11. That the sanctuary should be cleansed. 
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand 

and three hundred days, then shall the sanc- 
tuary be cleansed. — Dan. viii. 14. 

12. That the wicked shall be cut off. 

And it shall come to pass that every soul 
which will not hear that prophet shall be de- 
stroyed from among the people. — Acts iii. 23. 

13. That the works of Satan should be de- 
stroyed. 

For this purpose the Son of God was man- 
ifested, that he might destroy the works of 
the devil. — 1 John iii. 8. 



Millennial Day-Star. 55 

The covenant of grace is like the human 
body, with arteries and veins to diffuse life 
into all its parts. These fourteen things are 
the main arteries of this everlasting covenant. 
From these arteries life is imparted to all the 
veins of the Christian system, and from these 
veins life is given to the whole body of Chris- 
tianity, and will come to perfection in the mil- 
lennium. Then the bride shall have made 
herself ready. And the proclamation shall go 
forth to all the earth, Rejoice and be glad, for 
the marriage of the Lamb is come. 

This covenant was made with Abraham 
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight 
years before Christ's first advent into this 
world. If the same number of years will be 
given to the Gentiles it is evident that the ful- 
fillment of their time must be near at hand, at 
which time we may expect the second com- 
ing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 
This covenant secures full salvation to all 
true believers and was confirmed in Christ 
four hundred and thirty years before the law 
was given to Moses. 

And this I say, That the covenant that was 



56 Mii,i,enniai, Day-Star. 

confirmed before in Christ, the law, which 
was four hundred and thirty years after, can 
not disannul, that it should make the promise 
of none effect. — Gal. iii. 17. 

This covenant promised Abraham a twofold 
inheritance. First, in the land of Canaan, 
which will be Eden restored to the bride, the 
Lamb's wife, which will be the one thousand 
years of rest to the church on earth. Second, 
to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, 
and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven 
for } 7 ou who are kept by the power of God 
through faith unto salvation, ready to be re- 
vealed in the last time. — 1 Peter i. 4, 5. 

This covenant was confirmed in Christ by 
our heavenly Father, and this is the confirma- 
tion: 

As he spake by the mouth of his holy 
prophets, which have been since the world 
began, that we should be saved from our ene- 
mies, and from the hand of all that hate us, 
to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, 
and to remember his holy covenant; the oath 
which he sware to our father Abraham, that 
he would grant unto us that we being deliv- 



Mm,ENNiAiv Day-Star. 57 

ered out of the hand of our enemies might 
serve him without fear, in holiness and right- 
eousness before him, all the days of our lives. 
— Luke i. 70-74. 

The names of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob 
are often referred to by our Savior as a trinity 
in humanity — a type of the Holy Trinity. No 
other three names are linked together as these 
three. There is in the Bible an interesting 
reason for this in connection with the cove- 
nant of grace. The Father and Son and the 
Holy Ghost display their work in the salva- 
tion of men in this covenant in all the length, 
breadth, height, and depth of their divine ca- 
pacity. This shows up the divine side of this 
glorious covenant of grace, while Abraham, 
Isaac, and Jacob show up the human side of 
this glorious covenant. Abraham is the only 
character in the history of redemption that is 
a type of God the Father — God the Father of 
the church as well as its chief head, and all 
the holy angels. Abraham is the father of all 
believers on the human side according to the 
promises made to him in the covenant. He 
gave his only begotten son as a sacrifice to 



58 Millennial Day-Star. 

God. God in like manner gave his Son as a 
sacrifice for sin. God gave all things into the 
hands of his Son. In like manner Abraham 
gave all his great wealth to his son Isaac at 
his death. The covenant of grace originated 
and began with God the Father. In like 
manner this covenant on its human side be- 
gan with Abraham. 

Christ was begotten of God on his divine 
side. So was Christ begotten by Abraham 
on his human side. Isaac is a type of Christ 
in a peculiar sense, while Christ has types in 
the Scriptures, but none of them in such a 
significant sense as Isaac. Christ, begotten of 
God; Isaac, begotten of Abraham. Christ 
gave himself a sacrifice, Isaac gave himself to 
his father Abraham for a sacrifice. God has 
given all the earth into the hands of his Son. 
In like manner Canaan was transferred to 
Isaac. Sojourn in the land, and I will bless 
thee, for unto thee and unto thy seed I will 
give thee all these countries, and I will per- 
form the oath which I sware unto Abraham 
thy father. — Gen. xxvi. 3. 

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bride. Abraham secured to Isaac Rebekah 
for his bride. She became the mother of Ja- 
cob, the father of the twelve patriarchs. The 
Abrahamic church is the mother of the twelve 
apostles who were begotten of Christ in the 
Spirit. 

Abraham dug three wells in Canaan and 
the Philistines filled them up with earth and 
stones. Isaac opened them all again, but was 
driven by his enemies from them, until he dug 
one in Beer-she-ba, and there he found a set- 
tled home, and here he cleaned out the well 
his father had dug. In like manner Christ 
preached to the woman of Samaria at Jacob's 
well about the water of life, and opened up 
to all the world the well of living water. Isaac 
also blessed his sons just before his death. 
Christ blessed his twelve apostles just before 
he took his flight into heaven. Isaac lived 
and died in Canaan. Christ will never for- 
sake the church. 

JACOB A TYPE OF THE HOLY GHOST. 

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set 
up on the earth, and the top of it reached to 



60 MlXIvKNNIAl, Day-Star. 

heaven; and behold the angels of God ascend- 
ing and descending on it. 

In this dream the ladder reaching from earth 
to heaven, and angels ascending and descend- 
ing, is a type of that living communication 
opened up between Christ in heaven and his 
church on earth on the day of Pentecost, when 
the Holy Ghost commenced his work of tak- 
ing the things of Christ and showing them unto 
his church in her journey from earth to heaven. 

It was further promised Jacob in that dream: 
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, 
and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and 
to the east, and to the north, and to the south; 
and in thee and in thy seed shall all the fami- 
lies of the earth be blessed. God gave to 
Jacob twelve sons, and they became the heads 
of the twelve tribes of Israel, and by the off- 
spring of these sons the whole land of Canaan 
was peopled. So in like manner the Holy 
Ghost sent out the twelve apostles, and are to 
fill all the nations of the earth with the glory 
of the Lord as instruments in the hands of the 
Lord to spread in all the earth the everlasting 
gospel. 



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Jacob is a type of our Christ nature when 
we have been born of the Spirit. Esau is a 
type of our Adam nature after we have been 
born of the Spirit. We must keep our bodies 
under according to the teachings of St. Paul; 
and the same writer, in Romans, eighth chap- 
ter, teaches us that by this indwelling Spirit 
we are to mortify the deeds of the body, or 
the Adam nature. 

The Holy Ghost must make intercession in 
all God's dear children in all these eighteen 
hundred years, and must continue until the 
time of the Gentiles be come in. In this way 
to overcome the Adam nature in sinners so as 
instruments in the hands of the Lord to bring 
sinners to repentance and faith in the Lord 
Jesus Christ, that they may prepare the way 
and make ready a people who shall enter into 
that rest that remains to the people of God. 
And God will purge all the nations of the 
earth by cutting off all that will not hear this 
prophet in the Acts of the Apostles. 

Noah and his family all went into the ark at 
God's command, and when the flood was dried 
up the earth had none to occupy the land only 



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Christians. The gospel ark is to receive all 
God's children when the time comes that are 
living on the earth, when God shall cut off all 
that will not believe the gospel. While this 
dreadful storm of God's wrath is raging the 
Christians will be safe in the ark, and when it 
is over and passed and gone, to inhabit the 
earth, and shall delight themselves in the 
abundance of peace. 



THE JEWS, THE GENTILES, AND THE GOSPEL 



And behold, there are last which shall be 
first, and there are first which shall be last. — 
Luke xiii. 30. 

From the very nature of the covenant of 
grace Christ was to come to the Jews first; 
for this grew out of the relation that he sus- 
tained to Abraham, who was to be head and 
representative of the church according to the 
flesh through all ages. He came unto his 
own, and his own received him not. — John i. 1 1. 
There was, however, a part of the Jews that 
received him. And to them he gave the se- 
cret of the gospel. Although the gospel was 
preached to Abraham, yet it was wrapped in 
profound mystery. Now to him that is of 
power to stablish you according to my gos- 
pel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, accord- 
ing to the revelation of the mystery, which 
was kept secret since the world began. But 
is now made manifest, according to the com- 



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mandment of the everlasting God, made 
known to all nations for the obedience of 
faith. — Rom. xvi. 25, 26. This wonderful rev- 
elation must be given to the Jews, because of 
the very nature of the covenant of grace. 

And the Scripture foreseeing that God would 
justify the heathen through faith preached 
before the gospel to Abraham. Yet it was 
wrapped in mystery. The Jews, as a whole, 
rejected Christ in a most grievous manner, 
and the Spirit of all grace. And this was the 
fatal and sad mistake when the Jews said, Let 
his blood be upon us and upon our children. 
This was the black seal upon their eyes. This 
was seed sown that has taken more than 
one thousand eight hundred years to reap, and 
yet their harvest time is not ended. For I 
would not, brethren, that ye should be igno- 
rant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in 
your own conceits; that blindness in part is 
happened to Israel until the fullness of the 
Gentiles be come in. — Rom. xi. 25. 

When the Lord shall have done all for the 
Gentiles that they will allow him, then he will 
turn away from them as he turned away from 



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the Jews. And they shall be cut off from 
among the people. The Jews that believed: 
God gave to them all that belonged to his 
spiritual church, and through and by them he 
set up the dispensation of the Holy Ghost. 
As he gave to them and set up the Levitical 
dispensation, or the Mosaic, so God's plan was 
to take these believing Jews and call and or- 
dain pastors, teachers, evangelists, helps, and 
prophets, baptizing them with the Holy Ghost, 
bestowing upon them the gifts of miracles, 
wisdom, knowledge, faith, tongues, laying on 
of hands, discerning of spirits, and prophe- 
sying. Here was an organized army, and 
sent out to all the Gentile nations of all the 
earth to make war upon heathenism and all 
idolatry and superstition. And this war is to 
go on until the set time be fulfilled. Then 
will the Jews be called back and the believ- 
ing Gentiles will meet them at their Re- 
deemer's feet; and all shall see eye to eye; 
and God shall be their God and they 
shall be his people. The first shall be last 
and the last shall be first. The Jews have 
failed in doing the work that God called them 



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to perform for his honor and glory. God 
promised them rest in the land of Canaan by 
the hand of Joshua, but they failed to obtain 
it. For Jesus (or Joshua) had given them 
rest, then would he not afterward spoken of 
another day. There remaineth, therefore, a 
rest to the people of God. — Heb. iv. 8, 9. 
They failed also with the gospel as they had 
failed with the old covenant. So the Jews 
were first to receive the oracles of God in the 
old covenant by the hand of Moses. And 
they received first the covenant of grace in all 
its fullness as a new and living way from earth 
to heaven at the hands of Jesus Christ our 
Lord, but proved unworthy, and have also 
failed in this great work committed to their 
hands. All the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit 
they have lost. All the power to work mira- 
cles they have lost. All the power to receive 
messages from the holy angels they have lost. 
All the power to receive orders directly from 
the voice of the Holy Ghost they have lost. 
And the greatest of all losses is the power to 
impart the Holy Ghost to others. This power 
was confined to the apostles and Ananias, who 



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laid his hands upon the Apostle Paul when he 
was converted and he received the Holy 
Ghost. 

Philip had a great revival at Samaria, for 
many believed on the Son of God through his 
preaching. But John and Peter had to be 
sent for that they should come and pray and 
lay their hands on the converts that they might 
receive the Holy Ghost. Philip had power 
to work many great and wonderful miracles, 
yet had no power to impart the Holy Ghost 
to believers. This power the Jews have lost. 
What little is left now concerning all these 
primitive powers in the church is now seen 
only in the converted Gentiles. The Jews are 
to regain all they have lost, according to the 
Scriptures, through the holiness, fidelity, and 
power that shall be given to the Gentiles in 
the latter day. For as ye in time passed have 
not believed God, yet have now obtained 
mercy through their unbelief. Even so have 
these not now not believed, that through 
your mercy they also may obtain mercy. 

The Jews can not regain what they have 
lost until it is regained by the Gentiles first. 



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There will be a power given to the Gentile 
believers in the latter days that will be so glo- 
rious and so powerful that it will bring all the 
Jews of all lands back to Christ our risen Lord. 
What the power will be that the Gentiles will 
receive remains to be seen. It may be a res- 
toration of all the gifts of the Spirit as was 
first given to the apostles, or it may be a spirit 
of prophecy giving a power in preaching the 
word that will completely overthrow all the 
infidelity of the Jews, and be the chief cause 
of bringing into the church millions of heathens. 
It is clearly to be seen in all this what our 
Savior meant when he said, The first shall be 
last and the last first. 



THE DUALITY OF THE BIBLE. 



In the day that God created man, in the 
likeness of God made he him; male and fe- 
male created he them, and blessed them, and 
called their name Adam.— Gen. v. i, 2. 

In tracing the duality of the Bible through 
the Old and the New Testament Scriptures, 
we find it is used as a sign or finger board all 
the way from the time God made the cove- 
nant of redemption with his Son Jesus Christ 
to the introduction of the millennium. It is 
also seen that this duality runs parallel with 
the line of the covenant of grace from Abra- 
ham down to the beginning of the millennium. 
And there is a harmony and beauty in the 
manner in which God has chosen to present 
to our minds the many points that we are to 
retain in our memories in order to grasp the 
many doctrines contained in the great scheme 
of our redemption. In the covenant of grace 
there are certain things that mark the many 



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important steps God has taken all the way 
down to the final restitution of all things; so 
in the line of dualities the same method is re- 
peated on a different scale, and to bring out 
important and other necessary points and doc- 
trines. The same things are to be observed 
in tracing the line of the passover clear down 
to the ushering in of the millennium, when it 
finishes up its final work and finds its intended 
end. The love of Christ in the same way 
runs parallel with the duality of the Bible and 
the covenant of grace all the way down to 
the millennium, where it is seen in full bloom 
with all its divine beauty, and its fragrance is 
the feast of the souls of just men made per- 
fect. The history of Christ, as he stands re- 
lated to Mount Olivet, forms a line of sacred 
events; when traced to their terminus we find 
ourselves in the full blaze of millennium glory. 
The duality of the Bible begins with God and 
Christ. 

They enter into a covenant from the founda- 
tion of the world to lay the plan of redemp- 
tion. Also I will make him my first born 
higher than the kings of the earth; my mercy 



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will I keep for him for evermore, and my cov- 
enant shall stand fast with him. His seed also 
will I make to endure forever, and his throne 
as the days of heaven. — Ps. lxxxix. 27-29. 

My covenant will I not break nor alter the 
thing that is gone out of my mouth. — Ps. 
lxxxiv. 34. 

This covenant between the Father and Son 
shows in the very beginning of redemption 
mercy and justice. And these two things 
must never be lost sight of in all the forma- 
tion of our Christian character. 

Adam and Eve. — The purpose of God in 
beginning of the human family; he begins 
with a duality. The fatherhood and mother- 
hood make all human beings one family, bound 
together in blood and life unity, so as they can 
all be ready by faith for redemption by Jesus 
Christ our Lord. God stands related to his 
church as a father, while Christ stands related 
to the same church as a kind, loving, and 
nursing mother. So God, Christ, and the 
church constitute one great God family. 

God and Abraham, a duality in the cove- 
nant of grace, It has already been shown 



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that Abraham in this covenant shows up the 
human side of this covenant. And his part 
was to live a life of faith. And that all be- 
lievers are to make the same covenant with 
God in order to be saved. While God with an 
oath promises to do for all them just what he 
did for Abraham. This duality brings to our 
minds, in looking at these two things in a nut- 
shell, a complete understanding what is re- 
quired of us and what God will do for us. 

Ishmael and Isaac, a duality presenting to 
us in a living child born of a bond woman and 
another born of a free woman. The old cov- 
enant was salvation by works conforming to 
the ceremonial law, which law was a real fact. 
Ishmael was a figure of this fact, for his 
mother's offspring were in bondage ; but 
Isaac, born of Abraham's legal wife, was a 
free son; and his offspring with him had no 
bondage, but all along the Abraham side and 
his mother's side was free, and Christ came of 
this line of Abraham's seed, showing our free- 
dom in Christ by Isaac, a living figure. In 
this duality we can see the two sides of our 
hope for salvation. 



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If by works, it is a failure. If by grace, it 
is a success. This duality carries us deeper 
into the plan of salvation than we find in the 
duality of God and Abraham in the covenant 
of grace. 

Esau and Jacob, a duality to set before us 
just where our bodies stand in redemption in 
contradistinction to the condition of our souls 
in redemption. As it is written, Jacob have I 
loved, but Esau have I hated. — Rom. ix. 13. 

Here we have two brothers coming from a 
legal side and line on both sides from Abra- 
ham, which brings Esau nearer to Isaac than 
Ishmael was to Abraham. And by compari- 
son we will find in this duality we will go 
down still deeper into the scheme of redemp- 
tion. Esau, a figure of the first Adam. Adam 
lost his birthright to Eden. So Esau sold his 
birthright to Jacob. Our souls are first re- 
deemed by Christ, but our bodies are unsaved 
and must die and be buried and wait for their 
resurrection, adoption, and redemption. Esau 
was older than Jacob, yet he had to serve 
Jacob. Our bodies have life and action before 

our souls are accountable to God; but after 
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we are saved by faith in Christ our bodies and 
Adam nature must become the servants of 
our souls, as Esau served Jacob. Esau was a 
red man, and had red hair all over his body 
like an animal, a complete figure of our Adam 
nature that still remains with us even after our 
conversion, and is of the earth earthy, and 
feeds on nothing that is of a spiritual nature, 
but will continue to lust and contend all our 
lifetime for pleasures that are of the things of 
this world. In conversion we consent to the 
will of God to have this Esau nature nailed to 
the cross and to remain there until our death. 
Hence the Apostle tells us that we die daily 
and we must keep our bodies under, mortify- 
ing the deeds of the body by the indwelling 
spirit. Thus God preserves our bodies blame- 
less by faith. 

Our souls after the new birth become the 
Jacob nature, or rather Jacob is a figure of 
our Christ nature when we have been made 
new creatures in Christ Jesus our Lord. Esau 
and Jacob were enemies for twenty years. 
By faith and importunate and earnest prayer 
Jacob prevailed with God for grace to 



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meet his brother Esau in peace. In this 
struggle of Jacob all night with the angel of 
the covenant for victory we see a figure of our 
soul's struggling, pleading, and importuning a 
throne of grace for grace to meet our bodies 
at the resurrection. 

We all know from personal experience that 
the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the 
spirit against the flesh all the way along our 
Christian journey through life. But by faith 
in Christ our souls triumph over the flesh in 
death. But these two mysterious brothers 
will meet again when Esau will be redeemed 
and adopted by the faith of Jacob and will 
remain friends to all eternity. 

Joshua and Caleb, a duality setting forth the 
inner life of the church as a figure of Christ 
and the Holy Ghost. Joshua led the Israel- 
ites over the Jordan. On that day the Lord 
magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel. — 
Joshua iv. 14. 

Christ will lead his church across the river 
of death, and will, in the end, abolish death. 
Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan and 
gave them a short rest, but not that final 



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rest that remains to the people of God. So 
Joshua took the whole land, according to all 
that the Lord said unto Moses, and Joshua 
gave it for an inheritance unto Israel accord- 
ing to the division by the tribes. And the 
land rested from war. — Joshua xi. 23. 

Caleb spake words of encouragement to 
the Israelites before Moses to go up and pos- 
sess the land, that they were able to take it. 
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, 
and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; 
for we are well able to overcome it. — Num. 
xiii. 30. 

Likewise the Holy Spirit is in the church, 
saying to her, Go up and possess the land, 
even the nations of the earth, that the glory 
of the Lord may fill the whole earth. 

They were God's faithful witnesses. And 
they spake unto all the company of the chil- 
dren of Israel, saying, The land which we 
passed through to search it is an exceeding 
good land. 

Christ and the Holy Ghost are the true and 
faithful witnesses in the plan of salvation. 
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful and 



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true witness. — Rev. i. 5. The Spirit itself 
beareth witness with our spirits that we are 
the children of God. — Rom. viii. 16. 

Caleb and Joshua were perfect in their 
obedience through the whole of their lives to 
the will of God. " For they have wholly fol- 
lowed me." 

So with Christ; for he said, My meet is to 
do the will of him that sent me, and to finish 
his work. — John iv. 34. 

Likewise the Holy Spirit is obedient to the 
will of God. Howbeit when he, the spirit of 
truth, is come he will guide you into all truth; 
for he shall not speak of himself, but whatso- 
ever he shall hear, that shall he speak. — John 

xvi. 13. 

Caleb's possessions. 

And to him will I give the land that he 
hath trodden upon, and to his children, be- 
cause he hath wholly followed the Lord. And 
again, and Joshua blessed him, and gave unto 
Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, Hebron for an 
inheritance. 

So the Spirit shall possess the whole earth 
in the millennium. 



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Caleb's gift to his daughter. 

And she said unto him, Give me a blessing, 
for thou hast given me a south land; give me 
also springs of water. And Caleb gave her 
the upper springs and the nether springs. — 
Judges i. 15. 

The Holy Spirit gives the water of life. 

These two faithful servants of God re- 
mained in the Abrahamic church until it 
passed over the Jordan and entered into Ca- 
naan, the promised land. So Christ and the 
Holy Ghost will continue with the church un- 
til it enters the millennium, and will continue 
with her forever. 

Enoch and Elijah, a duality; a type of the 
perfection of the Christian religion applied to 
both soul and body. The Christianity of the 
Bible requires two witnesses in all its parts. 
And these two translated saints are exactly 
the same in what they typify; yet two are 
necessary, according to the order of the all- 
wise God, for witness. In the new birth the 
soul, the immortal part of man, is born of the 
Spirit, redeemed, justified, regenerated, sanc- 
tified, and adopted into the God family. While 



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the body does not partake of these divine 
benefits, and can not until the time comes, 
which will be at the first resurrection of the 
saints at the beginning of the millennium. 

And I looked, and lo, a lamb stood on the 
Mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty 
and four thousand, having his Father's name 
written in their foreheads. 

These are they which were not defiled of 
women; for they are virgins. These are they 
which follow the Lamb whithersoever he 
goeth. These were redeemed from among 
men, being the first fruits unto God and to the 
Lamb. And in their mouth was found no 
guile; for they were without fault before the 
throne of God — Rev. xiv. 4, 5. 

All those who are living on the earth at 
that time, and shall be counted worthy, will 
be changed in their bodies, and the body be a 
partaker of the gospel, as fully as the soul. 
Those who are not ready for this change, who 
are Christians at the beginning of the millen- 
nium, will not undergo this change, but will be 
required to go through a certain course of 
preparation to prepare them for the spiritual- 



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ization of their bodies; then they will be ad- 
mitted into the " Beloved City." Not all the 
departed saints will be resurrected at the be- 
ginning of the millennium, but those only 
who shall be counted worthy. 

And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon 
them, and judgment was given unto them; 
and I saw the souls of them that were be- 
headed for the witness of Jesus, and for the 
word of God, and which had not worshiped 
the beast, neither his image, neither had re- 
ceived his mark upon their foreheads, or in 
their hands; and they lived and reigned 
with Christ a thousand years. But the rest 
of the dead lived not again until the thousand 
years were finished. This is the first resur- 
rection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part 
in the first resurrection; on such the second 
death hath no power, but they shall be priests 
of God and of Christ, and shall reign with 
him a thousand years. — Rev. xx. 4-6. 

It will be observed in tracing these dualities 
of the Bible that the perfection and spiritual- 
ity of Christianity is brought more and more 
clear to our understandings. 



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Christ and John the Baptist, a duality. 
Christ came to be a witness to man that God's 
will toward him is good and acceptable and 
perfect. John the Baptist was a witness of 
Jesus that God sent Jesus to be the Savior of 
the world. 

Christ was God manifest in the flesh. 

John the Baptist was not the same as Adam 
before the fall, neither was he as Christ as to 
his divine nature. He was partaker of the 
first Adam in his physical nature, but born a 
Christian. He was a partaker of the divine 
nature of Christ, yet human. He was as 
much like Christ as he could be not to be 
Christ, and he was as much like Adam as he 
could be not to be just what Adam was be- 
fore the fall. 

The duality of Christ and John the Baptist 
are figures of the great mystery of godli- 
ness. And in coming to these two characters 
we reach the profound mystery of our Chris- 
tianity, which is just as important as any 
part of its combinations. 

The Spirit and the Bride a duality. Their 
work is that of witnesses to the truth of the 



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everlasting gospel. The Spirit is a witness in 
our hearts that God pardons our sins, and that 
we have passed from death unto life. The 
bride is an outward witness, in living before 
the world a Christian life, bearing witness to 
what the Spirit is doing within us. The bride 
preaches the gospel as a witness to the truth. 
The Spirit carries the preached word into 
the heart of the hearer, and is a witness to 
what is preached. The Spirit invites, solicits, 
and pleads with sinners to repent. 

The bride invites, beseeches, and persuades 
sinners to repent. 

The Spirit makes intercession for us with 
groaning that can not be uttered. 

The bride makes intercession, supplications, 
and prayers for all saints and sinners as well. 

The Spirit reveals the things of Jesus to the 
bride. The bride reveals the things of the 
Spirit that it receives from Christ for the edi- 
fying of the church as an instrument for the 
good of mankind. 

Jesus and his bride a duality, the perfect 
union of divinity and humanity, united as 
bridegroom and bride; the marriage of all 



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marriages, the day of all days to the church. 
But we are to wait until he comes before this 
union can be perfected, before this wonderful 
marriage takes place. As Adam and Eve 
were perfect in happiness in the garden, so 
will Jesus and his bride be in the millennial 
Eden. His farewell charge to his bride was, 
Occupy till I come. He then bestowed his 
farewell blessing and ascended up to heaven 
with the promise to come again. 

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins 
of many; and to them that look for him shall 
he appear the second time without sin unto 
salvation. — Heb. ix. 28. 

They shall be priest of God and of Christ, 
and shall reign with him a thousand years. — 
Rev. xx. 6. 

Moses and Elias, the final duality, exhibited 
on the mount of transfiguration. They are 
a type of the final perfection of man's salva- 
tion, and the perfection of the glory of the 
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the crowning of 
the church with everlasting glory. This is 
the dispensation of the Father starting out on 
its eternal march of fadeless glory. The Son 



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gives the reins of governments into the hands 
of his Father, and God becomes all in all for- 
ever. The church will leave the "beloved 
city " and take up her abode in the " great 
city" forever. 

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ 
shall all be made alive. But every man in his 
own order, Christ the first fruits, afterward 
they that are Christ's at his coming. Then 
cometh the end, when he shall deliver up the 
kingdom to God, even the Father; when he 
shall have put down all rule, and all authority 
and power. For he must reign till he hath 
put all enemies under his feet. The last en- 
emy that shall be destroyed is death. For he 
hath put all things under his feet. But when 
he saith, All things are put under him, it is 
manifest that he is excepted which did put all 
things under him. And when all things shall 
be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also 
himself be subject unto him that put all things 
under him, that God may be all in all. — i Cor. 
xv. 22-29. 



THE TWO GREAT CITIES CONTRASTED. 



There are two cities mentioned in the book 
of Revelation. These cities are to be occu- 
pied by the church in the future. The "great 
city" will be occupied after the general judg- 
ment day, or at the end of the world. The 
other, called the "holy city," will be occupied 
by the church during the millennium, for one 
thousand years. We will contrast these two 
cities to show that there are two distinct cities 
mentioned by St. John in the book of Reve- 
lation, one to be occupied by the church dur- 
ing the millennium, and the other at the end 
of the world. The city that is to be occupied 
by Christ and his bride during the millennium 
is called by different names. It is called the 
"beloved city." 

And they went up on the breadth of the 
earth, and compassed the camp of the saints 
about, and the beloved city. — Rev. xx. 9. 

It will be observed that the camp of the 
saints is spoken of as being attached or be- 



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longing to the beloved city. It is also called 
the holy city. And I John saw the holy city. 
— Rev. xxi. 2. It is called the New Jerusa- 
lem — the new Jerusalem coming down out of 
heaven. — Rev. xxi. 2. It is called the taber- 
nacle of God: And I heard a great voice out 
of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of 
God is with men. — Rev. xxi. 3. 

The time that this city is to be occupied by 
Christ and his bride is limited to one thousand 
years. It is called a kingdom: But the saints 
of the Most High shall take the kingdom and 
possess the kingdom forever, even forever and 
ever. — Dan. vii. 18. 

There is nothing said about the walls of this 
city, nor as having gates; neither is its founda- 
tion mentioned in the Scriptures. We have 
no account of its dimensions being taken and 
recorded. This city is described as having a 
temple: Therefore are they before the throne 
of God, and serve him day and night in his 
temple. — Rev. vii. 15. 

The bride, the Lamb's wife, is prepared for 
the marriage when she shall enter the beloved 
city. 



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Prepared as a bride adorned for her hus- 
band. — Rev. xxi. 2. 

For the marriage of the Lamb is come, and 
his wife hath made herself ready. — Rev. xix. 7. 

In this city is where the weeping saints are 
to meet one another and their blessed Lord; 
and he is to wipe away their tears from their 
eyes. And God shall wipe away their tears. 
— Rev. xxi. 4. 

This city will be where the resurrected 
saints and those that are alive and' remain at 
the coming of Christ and shall be counted 
worthy to have a part in the first resurrection. 

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the 
first resurrection; on such the second death 
hath no power, but they shall be priests of 
God and of Christ, and shall reign with him 
a thousand years. — Rev. xx. 6. 

Our blessed Savior holds the keys to this 
glorious temple, even the beloved city. And 
to the angel of the church in Philadelphia 
write, These things saith he that is holy, he 
that is true, he that hath the key of David, he 
that openeth and no man shutteth, and shut- 
teth and no man openeth. — Rev. iii. 7. 



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The one hundred and forty and four thou- 
sand are pillars in this temple, the beloved 
city. — Rev. iii. 12. 

They are to fight no more, they lay their 
armor by forever. And he shall go no more 
out. — Rev. ii. 12. 

They are to have the name of God written 
on them. And I will write upon him the 
name of my God. — Rev. xiii. 12. 

The name of the beloved city is also to be 

written upon them The name of the 

city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, 
which cometh down out of heaven from my 
God. — Rev. iii. 12. Also the name of our 
dear Lord Jesus Christ. And I will write 
upon him my new name. — Rev. iii. 12. 

Here are three names to be written upon 
the bride — 

1. The name of God. 

2. The name of the beloved city. 

3. And Christ's new name. 

A description of the great city which is to 
be occupied by the church after the general 
judgment, when Christ shall appear and say, 
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the 



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kingdom prepared for you from the founda- 
tion of the world. — Matt. xxv. 31-34. 

And he shewed me the great city, the holy 
Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from 
God. — Rev. xxi. 10. 

It will be observed that in this verse is men- 
tioned the great city — the holy Jerusalem in 
contradistinction to the beloved city — the new 
Jerusalem. The great city will absorb the 
beloved city at the time when the little season 
shall have expired that Satan is to deceive the 
nations of the earth and make an effort to 
overthrow the beloved city. 

And when the thousand years are expired 
Satan shall go out to deceive the nations which 
are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and 
Magog, to gather them to battle, the number 
of which is as the sands of the sea, and com- 
passed the camp of the saints about, and the 
beloved city, and fire came down from heaven 
and devoured them. — Rev. xx. 9. 

John says he saw a temple in the beloved 
city, but in the great city he says he saw no 
temple. 

And I saw no temple therein : for the 



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Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the 
temple of it. — Rev. xxi. 22. 

The great city had walls and gates of pearls, 
and angels at each gate. It had twelve foun- 
dations, with the names of the twelve apostles 
written in them. It was a measured city, and 
its dimensions accurately recorded. The great 
city had walls of jasper and precious stones, 
with streets of transparent gold. It had no 
sun nor moon; neither is there any night in 
it. And no tears falling down from the eyes 
of the bride to be wiped away by the hand of 
her loving husband. The Savior came to the 
beloved city and found his bride adorned for 
him. And when the marriage was over she 
entered the beloved city as his bride. But 
when he enters the great city she will enter 
as his wife. 

This bridal period of a thousand years in 
the beloved city, the tabernacle of God, is a 
preparation needful for the bride to entering 
the great city to be our Lord's Queen forever 
and forever. 

In this great city the bride will walk with 
Jesus in a robe of streaming white, and shall 



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reign forever and rest under the shade of the 
trees of life, which are on either side of the 
river of life, that celestial stream which will 
be to her a river of pleasure forever, which she 
shall drink for evermore. In the beloved city 
we shall reign one thousand years. But in 
this great city we shall reign forever. And 
there shall be no night there; and they need 
no candle, neither light of the sun; for the 
Lord God giveth them light; and they shall 
reign forever and ever. — Rev. xxii. 5. 

The temple at Jerusalem built by King Sol- 
omon was a type of this great city. The tab- 
ernacle set up by Moses in the wilderness is a 
type of the beloved city. Our bodies are the 
temple of the Holy Ghost, a type of the be- 
loved city. Our hearts are the temple of 
God, in which dwells the Father, Son, and 
Holy Ghost, a type of the temple of the trin- 
ity that composes the great city. It is seen 
that in comparison these two cities, in all their 
variations, and tracing them to their final end, 
glory, and beauty, that they run parallel with 
all other figures and types in bringing to light 
all the wonderful works of God in setting 



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forth to our limited capacity so as to take in 
and retain enough of them to catch a glimpse 
of his great creative power, a glimpse of the 
future glory of his Son and the glory that 
shall be revealed and worked out for his bride; 
a glimpse of the overwhelming victory over 
the world, the .flesh and the devil that awaits 
the church in the near future; a glimpse of 
that sweet rest we shall have when we enter 
Eden again and gather grapes of larger clus- 
ters and sweeter to our taste than the grapes 
of the promised land. 



THE SPIRIT WITHOUT MEASURE. 



THE BAPTISM OF LOVE THE FULLNESS OF 

CHRIST. 

And he gave some apostles, and some 
prophets, and some evangelists, and some 
pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the 
saints, for the work of the ministry, for the 
edifying of the body of Christ; till all come 
in the unity of the faith and the knowledge of 
the Son of God unto a perfect man, the meas- 
ure of the stature of Christ. — Eph. iv. 11—13. 

Before we enter the beloved city we must 
attain to that perfection which is provided by 
Christ for his bride in the manner laid down 
in his written word. It is all-important that 
this be realized in our souls before the body 
will be admitted into the beloved city, for the 
body must become a partaker of redemption 
and adoption in order to enter into that rest 
that remains to the people of God. 

Notice the rules to be observed reaching 



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Christian perfection. First, the work to be 
done by the five agencies, the apostles, pas- 
tors, evangelists, prophets, and teachers. The 
work to be done by them: i, edifying; 2, 
unity of the Spirit in faith; 3, knowledge of 
the Son of God; 4, perfection; 5, the meas- 
ure; 6, the fullness of Christ. 

This proves conclusively that we are to 
come to this perfection by a gradual work, by 
a divine method through human instrumen- 
tality under God. We can not get a perfect 
body until the soul is made perfect in Christ. 

To be a full grown Christian we must sur- 
render all the faculties of our minds, all the 
affections of the soul, and all the members of 
our bodies, to be possessed and completely 
and constantly controlled by the indwelling of 
the Holy Spirit. All the parts that it takes to 
make us complete in Christ are given in con- 
version. Like a babe, it has all parts to make 
a grown person, but must be developed by a 
gradual method. 

Our souls likewise must be developed by a 
gradual method until our spiritual natures are 
fully developed, until we reach perfection in 



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Christ by the indwelling Spirit. This is the 
reason why the Lord will not suffer us to re- 
ceive the final baptism of the Holy Ghost. 
We are not ready for it. Christ was the sec- 
ond Adam, and we are to be like him. He 
is the perfect type of manhood, and as the 
first Adam was a failure the second Adam 
was a complete success. Christ came to do 
and to be just what we are to do and be, as 
it relates to a perfect life. Christ lived a per- 
fect life by the power of the Holy Ghost. He 
was required to live a perfect life by the Spirit 
in order that we, after he ascended, might, by 
the power of the same Spirit, live a perfect 
life by faith in him. Christ received the Spirit 
without measure, hence we can not be perfect 
until we receive the Spirit without measure. 
When this is done in us we will be able to ex- 
claim, Praise the Lord, and exercise all the 
power of the Holy Ghost that is promised to 
the Lord's servants and handmaids in the lat- 
ter days. 

When the Spirit is given without measure 
then all the power to the church that is prom- 
ised will follow as a natural consequence. 



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Christ being the second Adam, and the second 
person in the trinity, but for our example and 
salvation he does not now act in his mediator- 
ship by the Holy Ghost, but by the divinity of 
the second person in the trinity, which is him- 
self. So he said, It is expedient for you that 
I go away: for if I go not away the com- 
forter will not come. In the- name of the 
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
Ghost I write. Water baptism is adminis- 
tered in the name of the Father, Son, and 
Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost being equal 
with the Father and Son, who is, " I am that 
I am," has divided himself, as it were, into 
three parts. He reveals to us in his word the 
relation we sustain to each division. We are 
required to be careful to observe the peculiar 
work each one is performing in and upon us 
in our salvation from the beginning to the pe- 
riod when we attain to the baptism of love. 
This love of Christ is infinite in its breadth, 
in its length, and in its height and depth. 
This is the baptism of love. — Eph. iii. 18. 



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THE SPIRIT WITHOUT MEASURE. 

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the 
words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit 
by measure unto him. — John iii. 34. 

To receive the Spirit without measure is 
the baptism of love, for the Spirit is equal 
to the Son; he also is equal with the Father, 
therefore to receive the fullness of God is the 
baptism of love; to receive the baptism of 
love is to be filled with the fullness of Christ; 
to be filled with the Spirit without measure is 
to be equal with being filled with God and 
Christ. We stand in our relation to God the 
Father as a receiver, and he stands in relation 
to us as a giver. Every good gift and every 
perfect gift is from above, and cometh down 
from the Father of lights. — James i. 17. We 
stand in relation to Christ as poor, helpless, 
dependent, and unworthy children; Jesus 
stands in relation to us as our Advocate, Me- 
diator, Intercessor, and Priest, to prevail with 
the Father that we may receive gifts from 
him for us. We stand in our relation to the 
Holy Spirit as Christ's children, to receive the 



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gifts of God through Christ by the hand, or 
from the hand, of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit 
has taught us all we know through Christ. 
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 
whom the Father will send in my name, he 
shall teach you all things. — John xiv. 26. The 
Holy Spirit has revealed to us all we see 
through Christ. For he shall receive of mine, 
and show it unto you. — John xvi. 14. The 
Holy Ghost alone shows us things to come 
through Christ. And he will show you things 
to come. — John xvi. 13. The Holy Spirit will 
guide us into all truth. By him alone we are 
to learn every truth through Christ. He will 
guide you into all truth. — John xvi. 13. We 
can absolutely receive nothing from the Father 
but through Jesus, and it is equally true that 
we receive nothing from Christ but by the 
Holy Ghost. We can not walk one single 
step in the path of righteousness but by the 
Spirit who is to lead us. For as many as are 
led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of 
God. — Rom. viii. 14. We can not pray as we 
ought unless we enter into our spirit closet, 
for we are to pray in the Holy Ghost. But ye, 



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beloved, building up yourselves on your most 
holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. — Jude 20. 
Not one single dropof God's love has ever 
in the past of our Christian life entered our 
hearts, nor ever can in the future, only as it is 
shed abroad there by the Holy Ghost. The 
love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by 
the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. — Rom. 
v. 5. This Spirit works on us and in us by 
those whom God has appointed, such as proph- 
ets, apostles, teachers, pastors, and evangelists. 
These instruments must be instructed by the 
Holy Ghost in order to be able to instruct and 
lead the church to perfection and the baptism 
of love. When we arrive to this baptism of 
love then we shall be like Jesus, no unright- 
eousness in us. He that speaketh of himself 
seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh 
his glory that sent him, the same is true, and 
no unrighteousness is in him. — John vii. 18. 
It is our duty, then, by faith, to live a life with- 
out willful sin, fulfilling the law, not by any 
power of our own, but by the power that 
worketh in us, even the Holy Ghost, through 
the faith we have in Christ. So we can do 



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all things through Christ strengthening us. 
This is the law of righteousness in Christ Jesus 
our Lord. Not until we are rilled with all the 
fullness of God and all the fullness of Christ, 
and receive the Spirit without measure, will we 
be perfect in Christ. This will give a life free 
from willful sin; for to be filled with all God's 
fullness, and receive the Spirit without meas- 
ure, would not, could not, admit less or pro- 
duce less than a life without willful sin. For 
when we thus come to the fullness of Christ 
it will be with us as it was with Noah when 
he finished the ark, all the members of his 
family entered the ark, then last of all Noah 
went in, God closed the door and sealed it. 
So when our souls are filled the door is shut 
and sealed by the Holy Ghost. Jesus, in his 
mysterious way, the door being shut, enters 
our souls. Jesus commanded the water pots 
to be filled, and they were filled to the brim. 
So we must be filled to the brim by the serv- 
ants of God chosen and sent by the Holy 
Ghost. We must wait until Jesus comes to 
turn it all into the holy wine, fitting us for that 
glorious rest that remains to the people of God. 



ANGELOLOGY, 



The Holy Ghost is given to the church for 
a teacher, guide, witness, comforter, regener- 
ator, revealer, helper, and leader. His work 
is to deal exclusively with our souls. It does 
nothing for our bodies. It uses our bodies as 
temples to dwell in while we are upon the 
earth. While this is strictly true as to the 
body and work of the Holy Ghost, it is equally 
plain that the Scriptures teach that the holy 
angels are given us to care for our bodies. 
But to which of the angels said he at any 
time, Sit on my right hand until I make thine 
enemies thy footstool? Are they not all min- 
istering spirits sent forth to minister for them 
who shall be heirs of salvation? — Heb. i. 13, 14. 

This appears in the case of the Apostle Pe- 
ter. And the angel said unto him, Gird thy- 
self and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. 
And he saith unto him, Cast thy garments 
about thee and follow me. — Acts xii. 8. Peter 



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was completely under the control of the Holy 
Ghost, yet the Holy Ghost did not deliver 
him, God the father did not deliver him, nor 
Christ; but an angel was sent, because his 
body was in danger. This is what is meant 
by angelic ministration for the saints. Daniel 
was preserved in body by an angel when ex- 
posed to the lions in their den. My God hath 
sent his angel and hath shut the lions' mouths, 
that they hath not hurt me. The Holy Ghost 
for the soul, and angels for the body. Our 
Savior needed this angelic ministration and 
received it, while he was in the flesh. And 
there appeared an angel unto him from 
heaven strengthening him. — Luke xxii. 43. 

Our Savior by this deliverance of his body 
from death by angelic ministration is enough 
to convince us that he intended to teach us 
that we would need help from angels while fill- 
ing up that which would be left behind of 
his afflictions in his body, which is his 
church. He did not put forth his own power 
as the Son of God, neither did the Holy Ghost 
come to his aid, neither the Father, but an an- 
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to his body only, never to his soul or divine 
nature. He was seen of angels. He said a 
legion of angels were ready to deliver him. 
An angel announced his conception, an angel 
warned his parents, an angel informed them 
when to return with his infant body, an angel 
rolled the stone from the grave, an angel pro- 
claimed his resurrection, angels proclaimed 
that he would in like manner return to earth. 
In tracing the work of the angels all the 
way from the very beginning of the history 
of the church down through the apostolic pe- 
riod, we have no hint that it should cease, but 
that they were to minister for those that are to 
be heirs of salvation. While this is true, it is 
also true that God uses them to inflict pain, 
disease, and death on the bodies of the diso- 
bedient. With one hand they sheltered Lot 
from death, and with the other they drew 
down from heaven fire and brimstone upon 
the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Herod 
was painfully destroyed by an angel. The 
line is so plainly drawn between the*work of 
the Spirit on the soul and the work of angels 
on the body that no one can fail to see it that 



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will read the Bible on this subject. Satan's 
power will be so weakened during the millen- 
nial period that men will live to a great age, 
for Christ was manifested to destroy the work 
of Satan. God sends death quickly, on some 
suddenly, by his angels, but the suffering in 
the flesh of his church is the work of Satan. 
We may expect wonderful disclosures to be 
made on this line in the introduction of the 
millennial glory. The great work to be done 
for the church in the millennium is to set her 
free from the power of her three great ene- 
mies, the world, the flesh, and her great ad- 
versary, the devil; and when she is free from 
his touch it will be when the angels will have 
charge over her to keep her from his touch as 
the Spirit keeps our souls from his touch. 
We are safe and justifiable in asking our 
Father in heaven to send angels to us when 
sick, or hurt, or exposed to dangers, to help, 
to heal, and protect us. 

PRAYING FOR ALL MEN 1 Tim. ii. I. 

It is God's will that all should be saved. 
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God our Savior, who will have all men to be 
saved. — 1 Tim. ii. 3, 4. Christ gave himself 
as a ransom for all; for there is one God and 
one Mediator between God and men, the man 
Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for 
all, to be testified in due time. — 1 Tim. ii. 5, 6. 
We must believe that God will draw all men 
to him through Christ by the power that work- 
eth in us, even his Spirit. No man can come 
to me except the Father which hath sent me 
draw him. — John vi. 44. Not by might nor 
by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord. 
— Zech. iv. 6. 

Christ, the only way by which we can get 
to God for sinners. Jesus saith unto him, I 
am the way, the truth, and the life; no man 
cometh unto the Father but by me. — John 
xiv. 6. Christ has salvation for all men by his 
satisfactory death, and will save all if the faith- 
ful ones will believe it. Now unto him that 
is able to do exceeding abundantly above all 
that we ask or think. — Eph. iii. 20. 

It is God's will to give us grace so as to 
turn all we can to him before we are called 
away. If ye abide in me and I in you ye 



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shall ask what ye will and it shall be done 
unto you. — John xv. 7. What we need is 
grace to work with. By the grace of God I 
am what I am, and his grace which was be- 
stowed upon me was not in vain. But I la- 
bored more abundantly than they all; yet not 
I, but the grace of God which was with 
me. — 1 Cor. xv. 10. 

We must thirst before this power can be 
given. The last day of the feast Jesus stood 
and cried, saying, If any thirst, let him come 
unto me and drink. He that believeth on me 
as the Scriptures saith, out of his belly shall 
flow rivers of living waters. But this spake 
he of the Spirit which they that believed on 
him should receive; for the Holy Ghost was 
not yet given. — John vii. 37—39. 

Daniel prayed for the salvation and the de- 
liverance of the Jews from captivity of sev- 
enty years, and prevailed, because God had 
promised it, and Daniel believed. Remem- 
ber, he stood alone in this peril, praying be- 
fore the Lord. We have the promise of 
Jesus that if two or three of us shall agree in 
prayer for any thing we desire that is in ac- 



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cordance with his will we shall have it. — 
Matt, xviii. 19. 

Notice the little stone cut out of the moun- 
tain became a great mountain and filled the 
whole earth. — Dan. ii. 35. 

Let us pray for it to come to pass. The 
saints are to take the kingdom. But the 
saints of the most high shall take the king- 
dom and possess the kingdom forever and 
evermore. — Dan. vii. 22, 27. 

Elijah prayed that it might not rain. Elias 
was a man subject to like passions as we are, 
and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, 
and it rained not for the space of three years 
and six months. — James v. 17. 

The little stone filled the whole earth. 
God's glory is to fill the whole earth. God so 
loved the world. Jesus died for all. And it is 
mentioned six times in the thirty-seventh 
Psalm that the saints are to inherit the earth. 
Why should we stagger in our faith, when 
God has said so plainly to us that all things 
are possible to them that believe, and now are 
all things ready just waiting for us to believe, 
even two or three? He will do it for them. 



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When the prayer of faith is offered for the 
salvation of the world then we may expect 
the power to be given to us and to others, 
whereby this great work is to be accom- 
plished. God keeps back the power because 
we are not ready, for he wants us to have a 
comprehensive view of the great magnitude 
of his plans in these last days. We may ex- 
pect our work to begin in the world and a 
general sweeping revival in the church and 
many to be saved. Let us gather up our 
strength and speak to our Father as Jeremiah 
did — Ah, Lord God, behold, thou hast made 
the heavens and the earth by thy great power 
and stretched out arm, and there is nothing 
too hard for thee. — Jer. xxxii. 17. 

Then shall the Lord reply to us as he did 
to Jeremiah, Behold, I am the Lord the God 
of all flesh; is there any thing too hard for 
me? 



THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. 



As seen by the wise men of the East. This 
star beautifully typifies Christ as the light of 
the world at his first advent into the world. 
And the light shineth in darkness, and the 
darkness comprehend it not. That was the 
true light which lighteth every man. — John 

*■ 5-9- 

His second coming or appearing will be his 

arising with all his fullness of God. — 2 Peter 
i. 19. 

We also have a more sure word of proph- 
ecy where unto ye do well that ye take heed 
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place 
until the day dawn and the day-star arise in 
your hearts. It is evident that Peter was 
looking for a higher state of grace than what 
we are at conversion. 

1. The day dawn that is appearing dimly. 

2. The star of the day, shining in the day 
time. Christ is to get full possession of our 
hearts in the broad light of a holy life. 



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3. Arise in the heart. It will be internal. 
He will be seen by but a few of his faithful 
ones who are looking for him to appear. 
These are they that follow the Lamb whither- 
soever he goeth, these were redeemed from 
among men. — Rev. xiv. 4. 

A light in a dark place. The first Pente- 
cost baptism has been a light for over eighteen 
hundred years in the dark Gentile age. — Acts 
ii. 17, 18. 

MORNING STAR. 

The morning star tells us that the sun will 
soon arise, and then all will be light. Jesus 
appearing fully in our hearts is proof that soon 
he will appear in his glory to us. The Apos- 
tle Peter urged the Christians to take earnest 
heed to the Bethlehem light they then had, 
which was the light first given by Pentecost. 
They are to take heed until the day-star arises 
in their hearts, typified by the residue of the 
Spirit to be given in these last days, typified 
by the prophet Elisha's double portion. When 
it arises in the heart of the bride its light 
will be so glorious and so beautiful that she 
will attract the eyes of the world and the sin- 



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ner will see his sins, and the backslider will 
see his condition and will repent. The moralist 
will see his mistake and repent. — 2 Peter i. 19. 
When the Jews shall see this great light, 
then will they lament as prophesied by Zech. 
xii. 10. And I will pour upon the house of 
David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem 
the spirit of grace and of supplications; and 
they shall look upon me whom they have 
pierced, and they shall mourn for him as one 
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bit- 
terness for him as one that is in bitterness for 
his first born. In that day shall there be a great 
mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of 
Ha-dad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 
Here is where the Jews are to come in. Also 
in Rom. vi. 30, 31. For as ye in times past 
have not believed God, yet have now ob- 
tained mercy through their unbelief; even so 
have these also now not believed that through 
your mercy they also obtained mercy. 



SUFFERING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST, 



If we suffer we shall also reign with him. 
— 2 Tim. ii. 12. 

The Apostle Paul compares the church of 
Christ to the human body, Christ being the head. 
The body has many members; so has the 
church. The members are not alike, 'but 
differ widely in their nature and in their work. 
It is equally so in the church. Every mem- 
ber of the body is an important and indis- 
pensable part of the whole. It is also true of 
the church. In the church the members are 
to be touched with infirmities. So was 
Christ, but without sin. Christ suffered by 
temptations, by fastings, by persecutions, by 
reproaches, by scourgings, by agonies, by be- 
trayal, by misrepresentation, by contempt, by 
weariness, by hatred, by infirmities, by pov- 
erty, by crucifixion, by death. It was need- 
ful that he should pass through all these things 



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by a living human experience, and work out 
a living human perfection by his human side 
and by his wonderful divine and human life 
in order that we might, through him, attain to 
perfection. This is the process through which 
all the members of his body must pass in or- 
der to prepare them to sit on his throne with 
him that they may be qualified to judge men 
and angels. 

What we are to suffer in order to attain to 
this perfection in Christ. — It begins with what 
the world considers a very world-wide loss 
of all things. Our Savior expresses it in 
very plain words: And he that loseth his life 
for my sake shall find it. — Matt. x. 39. The 
Apostle Paul speaks of it in language equally 
explicit: Yea, doubtless, I count all things but 
loss for the excellency of the knowledge of 
Christ Jesus my Lord. — Phil. iii. 8. 

When we have made this wholesale surren- 
der of all things, this crucifixion to the world 
and the world to us, we are then in a condi- 
tion to enter another test, and are assured we 
will be able to bear it, and that is, we are to 
be tempted. Blessed is the man that endur- 



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eth temptation: for when he is tried he shall 
receive the crown of life. 

This experience rushes us on to another 
scene of suffering, where we, like our Cap- 
tain, are to learn obedience by suffering. For 
this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience 
toward God endure grief, suffering wrong- 
fully. For what glory is it if, when ye be 
buffeted for your faults, ye take it patiently? 
but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye 
take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. 
— i Peter ii. 19, 20. 

We are taught in God's word that our work 
that God will accept is to him of three kinds — 
gold, silver, and precious stones. This kind 
of suffering Peter mentions in this text in re- 
gard to suffering is gold tried in the fire, be- 
cause it is Godlike in its very nature, and the 
hardest of all others to work out. When we 
are on the watch, and such an opportunity is 
presented, we should rejoice and be exceed- 
ing glad to do and suffer such things for 
Christ's sake. We will thereby learn to be 
obedient to the will of God, for when we pass 
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the other side and meet our Savior by faith, 
and his sweet words will come to our ears as 
never before: I will not leave you comfortless, 
I will come to you. He will manifest himself 
unto us as he doth not unto the world. Though 
he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by 
the things he suffered; and made perfect, he 
became the author of eternal salvation unto 
all them that obey him. — Heb. v. 8, 9. 

He that would reign with Christ must suffer 
with Christ. Yea, and all that will live godly 
in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. It is 
plain to be seen that this process of perfection 
must be submitted to in order that we be pre- 
pared for what Christ has prepared for them 
that love him. And not only so, but we glory 
in tribulation also: knowing that tribulation 
worketh patience, and patience experience, 
and experience hope, and hope maketh not 
ashamed, because the love of God is shed 
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which 
is given unto us. — Rom. v. 3-5. 

By a painful process our blessed Lord was 
made perfect. For it became him for whom 
are all things, and by him are all things, in 



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bringing many sons unto glory, to make the 
Captain of their salvation perfect through suf- 
fering. — Heb. ii. 10. 

All the members of his body are to be in 
like manner made perfect through suffering. 
For we have not an high-priest which can not 
be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, 
but was in all points tempted like as we are, 
yet without sin. 

It is evident from reading the Scriptures 
that God had in view the final, complete per- 
fection and beauty of his church. He knew 
just how many members it would require to 
make it a perfect and complete body, and at 
the same time the number of years it would 
require to train and develop each member of 
that body so as to qualify and fit it for the 
place they should occupy. In order to do this 
Christ must undergo all that he did as a suf- 
ferer in an individual sense. 

After his individual suffering, resurrection, 
and ascension to God to begin his work as 
Mediator, it was also needful that the Holy 
Spirit should be sent by the Father to his 
church on earth to guide, lead, and teach her 



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through each succeeding age of the world to 
the end of time. It would have been im- 
possible for the church to endure the painful 
suffering which it would require, to complete 
her perfection without this superhuman energy 
peculiar to the work of the Holy Ghost work- 
ing in the church to will and to do of his good 
pleasure. 

The Apostle Paul, in viewing this subject 
by a divine revelation, was led to express the 
following: Who now rejoice in my sufferings 
for you, and fill up that which is behind of the 
afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's 
sake, which is the church. — Col. i. 24. In this 
expression of the great Apostle it is seen that 
there was and is still a part of the sufferings 
that had not been filled up by Christ while he 
was in the flesh and down here on our earth. 
This he could not do, but it must be done by 
his bride to prepare her for her future work 
and glory in eternity. The necessity of the 
church suffering to prepare her for her future 
work and glory, may be illustrated by the 
making of a clock. The material must be 
obtained first in a crude state, then reduced to 



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certain metals, then subjected to various com- 
pounds, and by molding, filing, and polishing, 
every part and separate piece of the clock 
must undergo all this process. When all parts 
are fitly prepared for uniting and entering into 
the whole as a compact, then, and not until 
then, can the timepiece be fitly framed together 
by the master workman. When we take a 
view of the church in all her past history, it is 
fearful to read of her sufferings in the flesh. 
What is yet to be filled up is intimated in 
prophecy, and is signified by the signs of the 
times. In the beginning of the millennium 
there will be only a few, comparatively, who 
will be prepared to enter into this sacred rela- 
tionship with Christ, which will be a type or 
sample of what all the members will be in the 
end. 

When we consider what is to be the power, 
glory, and honor of the church in the future, 
we are not astonished that all her members 
must undergo such suffering in all the past of 
her wonderful history. 

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge 
the world? — i Cor. vi. 2. 



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Know ye not that we shall judge angels? — 
1 Cor vi. 3. 

His lord said unto him, Well done, thou 
good and faithful servant : thou hast been faith- 
ful over a few things, I will make thee ruler 
over many things, enter into the joys of thy 
Lord. — Matt. xxv. 21. 

And has made us unto our God kings and 
priests: and we shall reign on earth. — Rev. 
v. 10. 



A LIFE OF FAITH. 



Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him, 
but the just shall live by faith. — Habakkuk ii. 4. 

We also believe and therefore speak. 

And ready always to give an answer to every man that ask- 
eth you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness 
and fear. — 1 Peter iii. 15. 

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LIVING BY FAITH. 



WE ARE TO DO THE TRUSTING. 

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and 
put your trust in the Lord. — Ps. iv. 5. 

To offer sacrifices to God is to give to God. 
He has given us all things to see how much 
we will give back to him. To make peace, 
to be patient in tribulation and persecu- 
tion, to weep with those that weep, to visit 
the sick, to be pure in heart, to be 
meek and believe and love him whom 
we have not seen are acts of righteousness. 
Offer, therefore, the sacrifices of righteousness 
and trust in the Lord; trust him to give back 
to us the second time for the sacrifices of 
peace offerings. He gives in return the earth 
for an inheritance. Persecution — a great re- 
ward; for weeping — joy in the morning; for 
visiting the sick — his sweet approval in 
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heavenly Father's face; for helping the op- 
pressed — lending to the Lord. 

WE ARE TO SURRENDER. 

Neither yield ye your members as instru- 
ments of unrighteosness unto sin; but yield 
yourselves to God as those that are alive from 
the dead, and your members as of righteous- 
ness unto God. — Rom. vi. 13. 

A life of faith is the dedication of our bod- 
ies, minds, hearts, time, talent, influence, eyes, 
feet, hands, tongue, voice, and ears as in- 
struments in the hands of God, because we 
are raised together with Christ from the dead. 
The word yield, in this verse, tells us what we 
are required to do. This yielding brings us 
into fellowship with the Father, Son, and 
Holy Ghost. The silver ore yields to the fire 
of the furnace; this takes out the dross. The 
silver yields to the will of the molder; it is 
poured into the molds and yields to the press- 
ure on all sides, and the beautiful coin is made, 
bearing on its face the word liberty. The 
Christian yields to the fire of severe trials in 
life, and is separated from his sins and defectSt 



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He then yields to the will of the Holy Spirit, 
who is the molder. He then yields to the 
pressure of God's word on all sides and the 
beautiful coin is formed, and in him is seen 
this glorious word liberty. This is looking 
into the law of liberty. — James i. 25. 

A life of faith includes two things. First, 
death. Second, life. If you enter a ceme- 
tery you will notice on every tombstone that 
thought — dead. We fold up our dead friends 
carefully and lay them away to live no more 
in this life with us, with this inscribed on each 
coffin — dead. Let us label sin with this in- 
scribed on each one — dead, forever. The sun 
is alive to God's will. He rises with great 
regularity, he gives abundant heat and light, 
and this gives light to all animated nature. 
So we are to be punctual, faithful, and obedi- 
ent to God, giving light to the world that lieth 
in sin, and heat to the church. We are to 
reckon ourselves as dead to sin. Likewise 
reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed 
unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus 
Christ our Lord.— Romans vi. 11. 

When our forefathers determined not to 



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submit any longer to the government of Great 
Britain it brought on a seven years' war. The 
struggle for liberty was long and hard, and 
while the conflict was going on they reckoned 
themselves dead to the laws and authority of 
Great Britain, but alive to the liberty of an inde- 
pendent people. Likewise we have declared 
ourselves free from Satan's government, and 
a war is raging, but we are dead to Satan but 
alive to Jesus. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS ONE OF ACTIVITY. 

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus 
the Lord, so walk ye in him. — Col. ii. 6. 

When we set out to find the pearl of great 
price we said many things and did many 
things, but all was vain until we believed. 
This one step brought us into the kingdom 
and patience of Jesus Christ. So then, as we 
have received Christ by faith let us walk by 
faith. As the bride entered the dwelling of 
the bridegroom by one single step, w T ith these 
words falling upon her ears from the lips of 
the bridegroom, "Occupy till I come," she 
takes possession with joy, and with cheerful 



MlI<I,KNNIAI, DAY-STAR. I27 

obedience she begins and continues to walk 
from room to room, busy doing the will of the 
bridegroom, believing he will return and will 
do all things well for her. So with Christ and 
his bride, the Lamb's wife. 

god's part goes on continually. 

For we are laborers together with God: ye 
are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. 
— 1 Cor. iii. 9. 

There is nowhere God can stop in order to 
keep up this life of faith. Always loving, for- 
bearing, longsurTering, patient, watching, es- 
tablishing, comforting, preserving, helping, 
consoling. Were he to stop his work for one 
moment we would not be able to stand. His 
part is an endless work. We are the building, 
God is the workman. The clouds never fin- 
ish their work; they must, in their world-wide 
way, ride on through the heavens to make 
bread, fruit, and flowers for every passing gen- 
eration. So likewise God keeps his chariot 
wheels of mercy flying, his floating etherial 
system of grace always going, to give the 
bread of life to the eater. 



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WE ARE THE CLAY. 



A life of faith is one of pilgrimage. A pil- 
grim has some place in view where he ex- 
pects to be happy. The place we are jour- 
neying to is our Father's house. In order to 
make this journey safe we are wholly depend- 
ent upon friends who possess great wealth, 
great love for us, and they have great wisdom 
and knowledge. They have provided the 
great car of salvation, arranged to seat many 
passengers. The conductor bids us all to 
come on board. The engineer says, Yes, I 
will carry you through. So Jesus is our con- 
ductor, the Spirit our engineer. We are the 
passengers, trusting all wholly to our conductor 
and our faithful, skillful, and wise engineer, 
the Holy Ghost. We are the clay; the Lord 
does the work. 

GOD IS THE WORKMAN. 

Not by works of righteousness which we 
have done, but according to his mercy he 
saved us; by the washing of regeneration and 
the renewing of the Holy Ghost. — Titus iii. 5. 

A life of faith brings to light all the Chris- 



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tian graces and virtues most beautifully. We 
love to look upon a child ten years old with a 
well-developed body and a well-trained mind, 
with becoming habits. We know such a child 
is not self-made, it is not what it has done 
with its own hands or the exercise of its men- 
tal powers; we know there is a good father 
and mother that has brought to light such a 
beautiful figure, such a beautiful face, such at- 
tractive manners, such interesting conversa- 
tion. So the purity, the beauty, the joyful- 
ness, the contentedness, the amiableness, and 
peacefulness we see in God's children, are not 
by works of righteousness that we have done, 
but by the regenerating power of the Holy 
Ghost. 

WE ARE TO KEEP OURSELVES PURE. 

And every man that hath this hope in him 
purifieth himself even as he is pure. — 1 John 
hi. 3. 

A life of faith requires self-denial and watch- 
fulness in order to purify ourselves. There 
are some things we can do and must do, or 
we shall not be pure. What Ave can do God 



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will not do for us, and what we can not do he 
will do for us. Watching for the enemy is 
our part of the work. It is God's part to 
make a way for our escape. We are to deny 
ourselves, but God must help our infirmities 
by his Spirit. The general rule for purifying 
the heart is given by St. Paul in Romans: 
"The obedience of faith." It is God's plan 
to draw out all our powers. Earnestness, 
zeal, faith, importunity, waiting, knocking, 
seeking, calling, running, asking, looking, 
turning, confiding, fighting, striving, suppli- 
cating, suffering. By these we are to keep 
ourselves pure. 

WE ARE TO KEEP OUR FAITH. 

I have fought a good fight, I have finished 
my course, I have kept the faith. — 2 Tim. 
4-7. Christ came to earth to testify to the 
law of God to us. His testimony is true, for 
he is the faithful and true witness. It is our 
part to keep our minds refreshed by reading 
the precious words of this testimony and 
thereby keep the faith. 



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WE ARE TO KEEP OURSELVES UNSPOTTED. 

Pure religion and undefllecl before God and 
the Father is this : To visit the fatherless and 
widows in their affliction, and to keep himself 
unspotted from the world. — James i. 27. A life 
of faith is a life of clean lines. Our garments 
are made white by the blood. We are to be 
on the watch for spots that the world is so 
ready to make on our character so as to ruin 
our influence. A reflector can not give a 
complete light if there are but few spots on it. 
We are the light of the world, the Savior's 
reflectors. He has made it our part of the 
work to keep the reflector in good order so as 
he can shine upon us. The Lord will show 
us by his word where the danger is, but he 
will not compel us to go into them, nor com- 
pel us to keep out of them; but he will come 
to our rescue when we are about to fall, and 
enable us to overcome the temptation. It is 
not so much for our good as it is for sinners 
that we keep ourselves unspotted from the 
world. 



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A LIFE OF FAITH IS A LIFE OF OBEDIENCE 

TO CHRIST. 

If you keep my commandments ye shall 
abide in my love; even as I have kept my 
Father's commandments and abide in his 
love. — John xv. 10. If obedience to Christ 
will keep us constantly in the love of Christ, 
we should at all cost make that our home. It 
will give us success all through life. Enoch 
obeyed God fully, and it brought him to trans- 
lation. Abraham obeyed without hesitation, 
and obtained a son, a home, and an everlast- 
ing covenant, and the appellation of the Father 
of the faithful; and his bosom became the 
home of Lazarus in the world to come. Caleb 
and Joshua followed God wholly, and were 
permitted to enter the promised land; one re- 
ceived great military and political honors, the 
other an immense inheritance for his children. 
Stephen, because of his faithfulness, obtained 
a view of the throne of God. He saw 
Jesus, his dear Savior, standing at the right 
hand of this great throne of God. He has 
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crown after the death and resurrection of our 
glorious Redeemer. Obedience will secure to 
us in this life the love of Jesus as a wall of 
safety amidst all the dangers and trials of life. 

WE ARE TO LAY ASIDE SELF. 

And I will very gladly spend and be spent 
for you. — 2 Cor. xii. 15. 

A life of faith is to seek the good of others. 
God has nothing too good for his children. 
" No good thing will he hold from them." 
He has nothing better than his love and the 
blood of his Son for sinners; Jesus spent and 
was spent for us, and he did it " gladly." It 
is better to give than to receive. All the 
powers and capacities of my life I will spend 
for the church and let her spend me for her 
good. 

WE ARE TO LAY OUR HEALTH ON JESUS. 

The Lord will strengthen him upon the 
bed of languishing. Thou wilt make all his 
bed in his sickness. — Ps. xli. 3. 

We love the word home; that means a 
house with beds to rest and sleep on. It 
means a fire to keep us warm in winter. It 



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means a lamp to give us light, and tight walls 
and windows to let in the light of day, a roof 
to shelter us from the rain and snow. So our 
bodies are the home of the soul, the temple 
of the Holy Ghost, the purchase of our Sav- 
ior's blood, bone of our bone and flesh of his 
flesh. A life of faith does not neglect the 
body, and when it is afflicted we are to re- 
member that God is looking upon souls and 
bodies in love. 

A LIFE OF FAITH PUTS OUR REPUTATION IN 
THE CARE OF JESUS. 

But made himself of no reputation, and 
took upon himself the form of a servant, and 
was made in the likeness of men. — Phil. ii. 7. 

What others say about us, either good or 
bad, will follow us to affect us no further than 
the grave. But if our minds and hearts are 
stayed on Jesus and we have the moral cour- 
age to obey God fully under all circumstances 
we will stand approved at the judgment seat 
of Christ. We will go through life with the 
power of Christ resting upon us, and our joy 
full, our peace as a river, and our righteous- 



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ne-ss as the waves of the sea. Our love so 
strong the floods can not destroy nor drown 
it nor the flames consume it. 

LAY OUR WORK ON JESUS. 

Abide in me and I in you. As the branch 
can not bear fruit of itself, except it abide in 
the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in 
me. — John xv. 4. 

If we obey Christ from the heart, we are in 
him. Our being in him will constrain us to 
work for him. All we have to do in this life 
for our souls, our bodies, and the souls and 
bodies of others is the work that God has 
given us to do in this life. Faith in God will 
make our life work a success whether it be 
little or much. He will give us life work just 
in proportion to the measure of our talent. 
It is, however, all important that we believe 
that Jesus will by his Spirit lead us, teach us, 
guide us, and support us in our life work. This 
faith is what is meant by abiding in him. But 
unless we have this faith we may expect fail- 
ures and discouragements in our work. 



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PUT OUR PROPERTY IN THE HANDS OF 
THE LORD. 

Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt 
thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt 
be fed. — Ps. xxxvii. 3. 

We can not produce food nor raiment with- 
out the light and heat of the sun. We are 
wholly dependent on God for the heat of the 
sun and its light as well, and we trust him and 
believe he will give them to us every day. 
He then has an equal interest in all we pos- 
sess, and has an undoubted right to say what 
we shall do with his interest. He demands 
at least one tenth of all for his part for 
preachers of the gospel and for charity. But 
he promises to give it all back good measure, 
pressed down, shaken together, running over. 
Let us trust in the Lord and do good. 

COMMIT YOUR CHILDREN UNTO THE LORD. 

Train up a child in the -way he should go, 
and when he is old he will not depart from it. 

A life of faith sees a fullness in Christ for 
us, and for pur children. Thousands of ships 



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have been wrecked on the ocean, burying 
many thousands beneath its raging billows. 
In crossing the great ocean of life there are 
many rocks, and fearfully dangerous ones, 
along the way. All the ships that have at- 
tempted to cross over have been lost but one, 
all have been fearfully wrecked; all the pas- 
sengers lost. That one can take us all over 
and our children with us — the old ship of 
Zion. To train up a child in the way he 
should go, get on board this grand old ship, 
which has landed many thousands and can 
land as many more, and we will reach our 
home safely. 

CAST YOUR BURDENS UPON THE LORD. 

Cast thy burdens upon the Lord and he 
shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer thy 
righteousness to be moved. — Ps. lv. 22. 

We have a constant earnest desire that we 
may be sustained amidst the many trials of 
life that are like heavy burdens laid on our 
shoulders. A life of faith casts these burdens 
upon the Lord, and we will feel his left hand 
under our heads and his right hand embracing 
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us. We are often discouraged when we look 
at our imperfections in our Christian life, and 
see so much imperfection weigh heavily upon 
our hearts. This burden should be cast upon 
the Lord; for he is the end of the law for 
righteousness, and he will see to it that we are 
not moved. 

CALL UPON GOD IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE. 

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me 
in his pavilion, in the secret of his tabernacle 
shall he hide me; he shall set me upon a rock. 
— Ps. xxvii. 5. 

It is the desire of all Christians to evade 
trouble; it is the belief of all inexperienced 
Christians that trouble is a great hinderance 
in living a holy and happy life. But long ex- 
perience has proved that we grow faster un- 
der great trials than at any other time, for 
tribulation worketh patience, and patience ex- 
perience, and experience and hope maketh not 
ashamed, because the love of God is shed 
abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost. It is 
in time of trouble that God hides us in his pa- 
vilion. A pavilion means a tent, a place for 



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protection. We are to hide in the secret place 
of his tabernacle; he will set us upon a rock. 
Trouble often is the way by which we realize 
by calling on Jesus that he is the Rock of 
Ages, the true foundation, the rock that is 
higher than we. While we find ourselves 
firmly fixed on the rock, God, our Father 
spreads his pavilion over us as a wall, and 
shelters us from all our fears. He does not 
stop at this, he takes us into his most secret 
and sacred place in his royal tabernacle, and 
hides us within the mantle of his tender mer- 
cies — his lovingkindness. A life of faith in 
time of trouble gets God's best blessings. 

WE ARE TO REST IN CHRIST. 

Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, 
for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall 
find rest to your souls. — Matt. xi. 29. 

Let Christ select for you the yoke that you 
ought to wear. If it is to keep house, take 
that; if it is to preach the gospel, take that; 
if it is to be a money-maker to advance his 
cause, take that; if it is to sing for him, take 
that; if it is to lead in prayer-meetings, take 



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that. Then learn of him, for he is meek and 
lowly in heart. What work he gives us to 
do, let us be lowly in heart like him in doing 
that work. Let us in all things and in all 
places be like him. Let us be contented with 
our place that he gives us to work in his vine- 
yard, for we shall reap if we faint not in due 
time. Here is where we find sweet rest for 
our souls. 

TRUST AS A LITTLE CHILD. 

Whosoever therefore shall humble himself 
as this little child, the same is the greatest in 
the kingdom of heaven. — Matt, xviii. 4. 

A little child trusts to its parents for all it 
needs, never thinking for once that its parents 
will ever fail or forsake it; hence its trust is 
always full and perfect. Yet it is possible for 
the parent to fail, but the child does not know 
this is possible, and its trust, of course, must 
be perfect. A life of faith finds out that God 
can not fail, while ignorance prevents doubts 
and fears in the child, a knowledge of God's 
power and faithfulness and love our trust 
should be perfect. 



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IN NOTHING BE ANXIOUS. 

Be careful for nothing, but in every thing 
by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving 
let your request be made known unto God. — 
Phil. iv. 6. 

A life of faith realizes that godliness is profit- 
able unto all things, having the promise of the 
life that now is and that which is to come. — 
1 Tim. iv. 8. 

By prayer and supplication with thanksgiv- 
ing we lay before our heavenly Father what 
we desire as it relates to our needs, both for 
soul and body, believing his promises, and 
contentedly work and wait without doubtful 
hearts, casting all our care upon Jesus who 
careth for us. The Apostle Paul, in his letter 
to the Philippians, writes as follows: But my 
God shall supply all your need according to 
his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. — Phil. iv. 19. 
God made a covenant with Noah in regard to 
seed time and harvest, that it should never 
fail. He made the rainbow a sign to the world 
that as long as that appears to the eye of man 
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and raiment. As to the supply of spiritual 
food, it is included in the new covenant, that 
God will not fail to supply all our needs. When 
our faith reaches this plane of holy living we 
can join with Paul and say from our hearts, I 
have learned in whatever state I am therewith 
to be content. A life of faith looks not for its 
reward in earthly gains, for we brought noth- 
ing into this world and it is certain we can 
carry nothing out. — i Tim. vi. 7. And hav- 
ing food and raiment let us be therewith con- 
tent. — 1 Tim. vi. 8. It is the desire of the 
world to have an abundance of the good 
things of this world stored away so as to be 
free from want in times of misfortune and old 
age. What a great mistake. What a great 
amount of time has been spent without profit 
or real pleasure in laying up for a rainy day. 
Our time to pray, to read God's word, to med- 
itate on sacred things, to attend divine service, 
has been taken up for food and raiment for 
the body that is but a poor cage where the 
soul lives. Feed my soul. 



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A LIFE OF FAITH IS ONE OF CONSECRATION. 

But what things were gain for me, those I 
counted loss for Christ. 

Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but 
loss for the excellency of the knowledge of 
Christ Jesus rny Lord, for whom I have suf- 
fered the loss of all things, and do count them 
but dung that I may win Christ. 

A life of faith discovers such excellency in 
the riches of the glory of the knowledge of 
Christ as to cheerfully and gladly count all 
things but loss in order that we may win 
Christ. To have the privilege to learn of him 
day by day, to grow up in him, to feel that we 
are being rooted and grounded in him, dwell- 
ing in him and he in us, united to him as the 
branch is to the vine, hid in God with him, 
raised with him from the dead, a co-worker 
with him in this life, is a most glorious knowl- 
edge growing out of a life that is fully dedi- 
cated to God. Besides all this, the hope of an 
endless life without sin or pain, but joy at his 
right hand forever. 



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A LIFE OF FAITH PRESENTS A FAITHFUL 

BRIDE. 

And the Spirit and the bride say come. — 
Rev. xxii. 17. 

The co-operation of the Father, Son, and 
the Holy Ghost in the salvation of sinners is 
complete. This text puts the bride in line 
and range with the gospel in full obedient 
submission to the will of Christ, and her voice 
is heard in union and love with the Holy 
Spirit, crying, Come to Jesus. The Holy 
Spirit is the great comforter of the bride, and 
will be until Christ shall come again; and will 
guide her into all truth, bringing to her re- 
membrance the words of the Lord, showing 
her things to come, working in her to will 
and to do of his good pleasure, giving her a 
spirit of prayer, power to mortify the deeds 
of the body; giving liberty in songs, guiding 
in judgment, opening her understanding, giv- 
ing strength and boldness to declare the whole 
counsel of the bridegroom before a wicked and 
persecuting world. In all this we see mani- 
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the part of the bridegroom. This is the con- 
sequence of faith that works by love, faith 
that is the substance of things hoped for, the 
evidence of things not seen. When there is no 
resistance to the Spirit in us we are joyful all 
along life's journey, submitting to the will of 
our Savior. 

PURITY AND FIDELITY REQUIRED OF THE 
BRIDE IN A LIFE OF FAITH. 

For I am jealous over you with godly jeal- 
ousy; for I have espoused you to one hus- 
band, that I may present you as a chaste vir- 
gin to Christ. — 2 Cor. vi. 2. 

Angels are superior to us while we are in 
the flesh, for they have never defiled their gar- 
ments with sin; it would be fearful for them 
to sin right in the presence of God, for they 
are always in his sight. But we who are 
espoused unto Christ can not bow the knee to 
worship, not even the tallest angel that dwells 
in the very presence of God. To be pure and 
faithful to Jesus we are to worship none but 
God. How black would the sin of a bride be 
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the presence of the bridegroom before they 
are legally married. If we sin willfully after 
that we are espoused to the husband, our 
Savior, though the eye of no mortal on earth 
beholds us in that act, yet Jesus, our holy and 
blessed Lord, beholds us at every step we 
take ; and even the imagination of our 
thoughts are open to his sight. Let us re- 
member that the day is coming when we will 
be required to come forth out of our chamber 
to meet our spotless and pure husband, even 
the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor 
to him ; for the marriage of the Lamb is 
come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 
And to her was granted that she should be 
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white; for the 
linen is the righteousness of saints. — Rev. xix. 

7,8. 

BE NOT AFRAID OF GOD'S WILL. 

And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall 
find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, 
lying in a manger. And suddenly there was 
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host, praising God, and saying, Glory to God 
in the highest, and on earth peace, good will 
toward men. — Luke ii. 12—14. 

A great many of God's dear children are 
afraid of God's will. It seems to them that 
it places upon them great burdens and such 
painful tasks that conformity to his will would 
yield them no joy, no peace, no contentment; 
but this is the greatest mistake we can make 
in our Christian life. If we will try it for one 
year we will find more joy, peace, and con- 
tentment than our hearts can contain; for 
the Lord hath said in his word, He will 
pour out such a blessing as we will not be 
able to contain. We know that to be wholly 
conformed to God's will brings on suffering; 
but what is this compared to the joy and 
peace consequent upon a life of suffering with 
Christ? The great Apostle Paul said, I take 
pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in neces- 
sities, in persecution, in distress, for Christ's 
sake, for when I am weak then am I strong. — 
2 Cor. xii. 10. Most gladly will I therefore 
glory in my infirmities, that the power of 
Christ may rest upon me, — 2 Cor, xii. 9. We 



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can not fail to see what a glorious experience 
awaits all of God's children that do his will. 

BELIEVE ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD. 

A life of faith must take in all the promises; 
for it is written, For all the promises of God 
in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the 
glory of God by us. — 2 Cor. i. 20. 

When we look back upon our past experi- 
ences in a life of faith we see no place, or part 
of it, where our faith has appropriated God's 
precious promises but we have felt in our 
hearts that the words of this passage of Script- 
ure are true and the experience of oar inmost 
soul. Let all the children of God join in say- 
ing, Yea, yea, the promises are true; and let 
us with a hearty good will say, So be it. 
Amen and Amen, unto the glory of God 
by us. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS A CONSTANT GROWTH 

IN FAITH. 

For therein is the righteousness of God re- 
vealed from faith to faith; as it is written the 
just shall live by faith. — Rom. i. 17. 



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Faith must have a beginning. When we 
trusted God for salvation through Christ Jesus 
our Lord, our faith took its rise and assumed 
the form that is recorded in Hebrews. Now 
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the 
evidence of things not seen. From that time 
on we find our faith gets stronger and stronger. 
Faith begets faith. One single match when 
ignited produces fire, but is a small begin- 
ning; but give it fuel and it increases with 
great rapidity. So faith at the hour of con- 
version has a small beginning, but by the 
large quantity of grace furnished by our heav- 
enly Father, and we have free access to it, we 
find by its use our faith feeds upon it like fire 
feeding on good dry fuel, and soon becomes 
an immense force for good to the world; 
brings joy unspeakable and full of glory, our 
lips render the sacrifice of praise and thanks- 
giving to God and the Lamb. All glory to 
God that it is our privilege to grow in faith 
while we are journeying by the way to 
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HOW FAITH MAY BE INCREASED. 

Beloved, if our hearts condemn us not, then 
we have confidence toward God. — 1 John iii. 
21. 

As a dutiful child approaches a kind father 
for a favor in confidence, so will a dutiful 
Christian approach God in faith for a blessing, 
because disobedience produces unbelief in the 
heart; not that we doubt the truthfulness of 
God's word, but our disobedient heart con- 
demns us and we feel guilty before God, and 
the question arises in our minds, How can 
God grant a blessing to one so unworthy as I? 
Hence, we see how important it is to do the 
will of God under all circumstances and at all 
cost. Thousands have laid down their lives 
rather than disobey, for this would bring on 
doubts. 

WE MUST OBEY FROM THE HEART. 

My son, let thy heart keep my command- 
ments, for long life and peace shall they add 
to thee. — Rev. iii. 1. 

When we obey from the heart we realize 
that our minds are stayed on God. This kind 



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of obedience is full of love, zeal, hope, joy, 
gratitude, and sorrow for sinners, and mercy 
toward our enemies. A great desire for God's 
will to be done on earth as it is done in heaven. 
There is nothing that we can do in this short 
life that is so good, so wise, so polite, so sensi- 
ble, so fruitful, peace-producing, so comfort- 
ing, so manly, so animating, and so joyful as 
heart obedience filled with heart faith. 

A LIFE OF FAITH REQUIRES IMPORTUNITY. 

And shall not God avenge his own elect 
which cry day and night unto him, though he 
bear long with them? — Luke xviii. 7. 

As strange as it may appear, we may go to 
God for blessings for ourselves or others and 
our faith may be as strong as he desires and 
we may be very earnest in our prayers, yet he 
is not pleased without importunity. It may 
be he wants to bring out our gratitude, for it 
has this effect when the blessing is long de- 
layed. It may be to remind us how unworthy 
we are, and what condescending goodness in 
God to hear us and give us the desire of our 
hearts. But one thing we know, a long de- 



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lay when the blessing comes, our faith is 
stronger. To be full of faith we must be full 
of the Spirit. And the saying pleased the 
whole multitude; and they chose Stephen, a 
man full of faith and the Holy Ghost. — Acts 
vi. 5. Faith comes first, then the Spirit. A 
bird can not fly with one wing off, or if one 
is cropped a little its flight is not so swift, 
and is soon tired. So faith is one wing and 
the Spirit the other. We may have some 
faith, but our spirit wings may be deficient; 
some feathers out, or cropped by the enemies, 
or by unbelief. Then we soon fag or faint in 
our Christian work. A full faith believeth all 
things. To be full of the Spirit is for it to 
work in us to will and to do of his good 
pleasure. 

FAITH WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO DO FOR 

JESUS. 

And whatsoever we ask we receive of him 
because we keep his commandments, and do 
those things that are pleasing in his sight. — 
John xiii. 22. 

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A healthy man must have exercise of mind 
and body. Faith requires exercise, and con- 
stant growth can not be possible without it; 
the more the better. It must be at work for 
the glory of God and the good of souls. All 
kinds of Christian work must be conducted 
by faith in God, or the profit will be but little, 
and God will not be glorified by us. 

A LIFE OF FAITH SECURES HELP FROM GOD. 

I am the vine, ye are the branches; he that 
abideth in me and I in him, the same bring- 
eth forth much fruit, for without me ye can 
do nothing. — John xv. 5. 

Moses constructed the tabernacle, but God 

gave him the plan; Joshua captured the city 

of Jericho, but God was with him; Peter raised 

the dead, but Christ was the power; Philip 

had a great revival in his day at Samaria, but 

without Christ he could have accomplished 

nothing. He sent for John and Peter to come 

down there, for they needed the Holy Ghost; 

and when they got there they prayed and laid 

hands upon them, and they received the Holy 

Ghost. 
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A FAITH THAT GETS THE BLESSING IS NEVER 
AGAINST THE WILL OF GOD. 

And this is the confidence we have in him, 
that if we ask any thing according to his will 
he heareth us. — I John v. 4. 

And we know if he hear us whatsoever we 
ask, we know we have the petition we desire 
of him. — 1 John v. 15. 

God has promised us the help of his Spirit 
when we pray; for we know not what to pray 
for as we ought, but the Spirit itself maketh 
intercession for us with groanings that can not 
be uttered. When we know from our expe- 
rience in prayer that the Spirit is helping us, 
then we know we are on the right line; there- 
fore we know God will hear us and grant the 
petition. 

REMEMBER, GOD'S WORD IS TRUE. 

That by two immutable things, in which it 
was impossible for God to lie, we might have 
a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge 
to lay hold upon the hope set before us. — 
Heb. vi. 18. 

When ourgreat Civil War was raging the peg-' 



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pie in the South lost their negroes, their stock, 
their banks, their household furniture, and 
many lost their fencing around their land, and 
even their freedom as an independent nation; 
but one thing remained to give them consola- 
tion, and that was their land. Bushwhackers 
could not carry it off, fire could not burn it, 
water could not wash it away. It could not 
be carried away by wild animals, nor hung by 
the neck until it was dead; it could not be ex- 
ploded by powder, nor carried off in a balloon, 
for the nations of the earth are ready to join 
us and help us fight for our homesteads. So 
with God's word, it is hid in our hearts, even 
interwoven into our souls, and that life is hid 
with Christ in God. Thieves can not steal it, 
fire can not burn it, water can not quench it, 
hell can not confiscate it, and all the heavenly 
host are ready to fight for our homes in glory. 
God has sworn that his faithfulness shall not 
fail, and we shall be more than conquerors. 

DO NOT DEPEND UPON FEELING. 

By this we know that we love the children 
of God, when we love God, and keep his 



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commandments. For this is the love of God, 
that we keep his commandments: and his 
commandments are not grievous. — 1 John 

St. John teaches us in this same letter that 
to believe on Jesus Christ and love one another 
is the commandment. To love one another 
and exercise faith in Christ is the way to good 
feeling in religion. The right kind of obedi- 
ence will produce feeling. We need not to 
be anxious about feeling if our obedience is 
from the heart. If ye keep my command- 
ments ye shall abide in my love as I have kept 
my Father's commandments and abide in his 
love. — John xv. 10. 

Feeling, however, is all-important, but it 
should be produced by the Lord without any 
exercise upon our part, as it is only the con- 
sequence of obedience. We should not op- 
pose deep feeling. It is the best plane to walk 
in. We get in sympathy with God by it. 
We can not realize God without it. It is good 
for the health of our bodies. It never wearies 
us in body nor in mind when it is from God. 
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little troubles and not notice them. Reflection 
and meditation upon the goodness of God is 
a good way to good feeling. Prayer, when 
fervent, importunate, faithful, and humble, will 
produce good feeling. 

WHAT ARE THESE FEELINGS TO BE ? 

And being in an agony he prayed more 
earnestly. — Luke xxii. 44. 

If such feeling was right in Christ for sin- 
ners it must be right for us to feel deeply for 
sinners. Paul said he went from house to 
house weeping. Our feelings are to be sor- 
row for sinners. Blessed are they that mourn, 
for they shall be comforted. We are to feel 
for them — that soul that is in great affliction, 
who has lost dear friends. Jesus wept with 
those two sisters, Mary and Martha. Christ 
was touched with a feeling of our infirmities. 
So should we be touched by the sorrows that 
come on our brethren by their infirmities. 
There can be no joy in the absence of feeling. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS A LIFE THAT JUDGES 
CORRECTLY. 

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the meek will he teach his ways. — Ps. xxy. 9. 
A meek man must be a man of faith. Such 
a one Christ guides in and teaches his ways. 
If we have Christ to guide us in judg- 
ment by his Spirit we shall be able to steer 
our boat correctly through life that no harm 
shall befall us by the way. To be able to 
judge correctty in the trials of life we are to 
be taught the way of God by his Spirit. 

We have great reasons to be thankful con- 
tinually that such help is granted unto us while 
marching on to glory. 

GOD APPEALS TO THE WILL. 

Cast away from you all your transgressions 
whereby ye have transgressed, and make you 
a new heart and a new spirit, for why will ye 
die, O house of Israel? — Ezek. xviii. 31. 

When we stand before God that he may 
judge our work, he will make us see and feel 
keenly that he holds us responsible for our 
will power, for he is daily appealing to us, 
why not obey? Why not suffer for me? You 
can if you will. Ye will not come unto me 
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the inner man. He calls upon the sinners, 
Why will ye die? 

IN A LIFE OF FAITH THE JUDGMENT MUST 
CONTROL THE WILL. 

Not. every one that saith unto me, Lord, 
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, 
but he that doeth the will of my Father in 
heaven. — Matt. vii. 21. 

The will power in us is the hinge upon 
which God makes salvation turn. If we do 
not believe it is because we do not will to be- 
lieve. If we will hear the testimonj^ of Christ 
and his apostles and his servants in our day 
and generation, we will be compelled to be- 
lieve if we will be governed by our honest 
judgment; for God will not leave us without 
evidence. And he will guide us in judgment, 
that our wills may see the way plainly. 

A LIFE OF FAITH REMEMBERS THE RESPONSI- 
BILITY OF THE WILL. 

I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The 
Lord is my rock, and my fortress and my de- 
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trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salva- 
tion, and my high tower. — Ps. xviii. i, 2. 

In this passage of Scripture the servant of 
God gives eight reasons for willing to do 
right. Loving and trusting are the two things 
that he determined to do by the force of his 
will that he might reap eight benefits that 
could not be obtained from any other source, 
namely — strength, my rock, my fortress, my 
deliverer, my God, my buckler, the horn of 
my salvation and high tower. To be without 
these benefits we could not hope to enter the 
home of the blessed. Besides, I have a God 
because I will to have a God; I have strength 
because I will to have strength. So by will- 
ing and trusting we have a rock to build upon, 
a fortress to hide in, a buckler to support us, 
a deliverer in time of trouble, a horn of de- 
fense, and a high tower for comfort. If we 
go to the judgment seat of Christ and God 
should ask us, Why have you come hither and 
no Savior, no strength, no buckler, no deliv- 
erer, no high tower? What could we say but 
this: Lord, you wanted me to have them; 
you offered them to me, and that, too, with- 



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out price; but I would not say as David said, 
I will love thee, I will trust thee. Therefore 
the child of God sees it is good to will and do. 

A LIFE OF FAITH YIELDS THE WILL TO THE 
CONTROL OF THE HOLY GHOST. 

For it is God that worketh in you both to 
will and to do of his good pleasure. — Phil, 
ii. 13. 

All our powers and capacities are to be put 
under the control of the Spirit. It is our part 
to consecrate our will to God; it is God's part 
to work the will. A railroad company can 
trust an engineer with an engine, but the 
working of it is done by the engineer and not 
by the company. We put our will in God's 
hands as the power of our actions, and he 
works it according to his will, not only to will 
but to do what is his will. 

There is no point in all this subject that is 
more important — to put our will in its proper 
place, for a well-controlled will makes a fruit- 
ful life. 

A LIFE OF FAITH TAKES HEED TO ITS WAY. 

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sin not with my tongue; I will keep my mouth 
with a bridle. — Ps. xxxix. i. 

The ocean will hold up on its bosom as many 
of the largest vessels that sail on its surface as 
thick as they can be placed with room to run, 
and not interfere with one another, but with- 
out a force to man them none would be safe. 
God's grace can hold us up, but we must use 
the oars or we will run against the rocks. I 
will take heed to my ways. A horse is an 
animal of great power, and altogether unman- 
ageable without the bits and bridle. So the 
tongue, a great power for good, but the will 
puts on the bridle. 

A LIFE OF FAITH WAITS PATIENTLY ON 
THE LORD. 

On thee do I wait all the day. — Ps. xxv. 5. 
Patience, when it has its perfect work, is like 
the arrow on the lightning rod: if the day is 
fair the arrow points the way the wind blows 
from. If the day is dark and dismal it points 
the same direction as on the fair day, the way 
the wind blows from. Whatever the change 
may be the arrow is always ready to face the 



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wind. So with patience, when it wants a 
blessing it just keeps its eye on God. Though 
many storms may press hard, and it may be 
turned every whither, yet its eye is fixed on 
Jesus. On thee do I wait all the day, for the 
blessing will come. 

A LIFE OF FAITH WILL WORSHIP GOD IN 
SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. 

I will abide in thy tabernacle forever. — Ps. 
lxi. 4. 

We can not serve God in spirit and in truth 
without an opinion; but an opinion is not true 
religion, neither is it real service, neither is it 
true worship of God as we ought, bringing 
God into our most conscious being, and we 
realize intimately the personality of Jesus. A 
deaf man may be taught to run his fingers 
over the keys of an organ with as much cor- 
rectness as the best organist, and not hear the 
least sound, it is the same as no music to him. 
So with a moralist or a formalist, they go 
through all the exercises of worship without 
the spirit of worship, without the spirit, and 
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A LIFE OF FAITH IS A LIFE OF MEDITATION. 

I will meditate in thy precepts and have re- 
spect unto thy ways. — Ps. cxix. 15. 

I will meditate. There can be no medita- 
tion without we first will to do so. Thus 
an experienced Christian derives so much 
strength and joy and spiritual knowledge by 
meditation upon God's will and word that he 
can not afford to neglect this important duty. 
We may pass hurriedly through a garden 
filled with all kinds of flowers and sweetest 
smelling odors, and get some food for our 
eyes and some for the smell, but stop and 
dwell for a while if you would be filled with 
delight. So we may read God's precepts and 
respect his ways, but to stop and meditate 
brings a full cup. 

A LIFE OF FAITH WILL RETAIN GOD 7 S WORD. 

I will delight myself in thy statutes; I will 
not forget thy word — Ps. cxix. 16. 

It is exceedingly desirable to know that 
God will answer our prayers. One way to 
get this blessing is to remember that the 
Psalmist says, Delight thyself also in the Lord 



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and he will give thee the desires of thy heart. 
But unless we retain the word of God in our 
memory we will have no resource to draw 
upon for meditation ; therefore we will have 
no delight in God. I will not forget thy 
words. Thy words were found and I did eat 
them, and thy words were the joy and re- 
joicing of my heart. How sweet are thy 
words to my taste, yea sweeter than honey in 
my mouth. 

A LIFE OF FAITH DELIGHTS IN GOD'S WORD 
AND HIS COMMANDMENTS. 

I will run in the way of thy commandments 
when thou shalt enlarge my heart. — Ps. cxix. 

3 2 - 

The way of God's commandments are beau- 
tiful to the eye, musical to the ear, and ex- 
ceedingly soft and pleasant to the feet. A life 
of faith makes this discovery and is delighted 
to run in this beautiful and easy way. But 
you must not overlook the secret of this de- 
light, and that is, when God enlarges my 
heart, if we can only crawl, let us stay in 
the way of his commandments. If we get so 



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as we can walk, let us walk in the way of his 
commandments; for we will soon find our 
hearts enlarged; then we will run with de- 
light. 

A LIFE OF FAITH WILL EXPRESS ITS CON- 
VICTIONS IN THE LORD. 

Thou wilt show me the path of life; in thy 
presence is fullness of joy, and at thy right 
hand are pleasures for evermore. — Ps. xvi. n. 
A life of faith walks in a plain path, even the 
path of light. God has appointed ministers 
to watch for the souls of his children and to 
feed them as well, but he does not trust men 
nor even angels to show us the path of life; 
but this important work is committed to the 
Holy Ghost. By him the path of life is shown 
to us, and also by his own power throws beau- 
tiful rays of divine light along that way, so 
that in his presence is fullness of joy in this 
life. Let us experience it. 

A LIFE OF FAITH LOOKS WITH DELIGHT 
UPON GOD'S THOUGHTS. 

How precious also are thy thoughts unto 
me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! 



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If I should count them they are more in num- 
ber than the sand; when I am awake I am 
still with thee. — Ps. cxxxix. 17, 18. 

It fills us with joy and wonder on a clear 
night, and more so when all the stars are in 
full view, to behold them; and that expres- 
sion of the Psalmist comes to us: The heav- 
ens declare the glory of God. But how much 
more are we delighted and wonder when we 
behold the innumerable thoughts of God to- 
ward us, as they shine out from the broad sky 
of our hope of eternal life? And all of them 
are more precious than rubies. More to be 
desired than gold. All we can desire are not 
to be compared to them. 

A LIFE OF FAITH ACKNOWLEDGES GOD'S 

GOODNESS. 

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he 
shall direct thy prayers. — Prov. iii. 6. 

When a community calls a man to preside 
over them in important matters of delibera- 
tion it is expected that such a man that is thus 
honored should make his acknowledgments 
to his constituents. But how great is our ob- 



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ligation to acknowledge God in all our ways, 
who has honored us to become a student of 
the Holy Spirit that we may execute the work 
assigned us in the future, even to judge men 
and angels. Besides it brings in its reflex 
action upon us, this glorious blessing. He 
will direct our paths. 

A life of faith is to receive every thing in 
life as coming from God's hands to do us good. 
But our love to him must be greater than it 
is to any other object. Persecution for our 
good when we take it patiently. Blessed are 
ye when men shall revile you and persecute 
you and shall say all manner of evil against 
you for my sake. — Matt. v. Persecution could 
not come upon us without God's consent, for 
God has power over all things, and could by 
his power keep all things out of our way, so 
as we could go all the way to heaven, so that 
Satan nor man could do us any harm. But 
God sees it is best for us to be exposed to our 
enemies as long as life shall last. But we 
are made better, richer, and more grateful to 
God for his grace, for his love, his mercy, 
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never been persecuted. Humility is the 
crowning virtue in Christianity, and persecu- 
tion is one of God's methods to draw it out. 
The greater the peril the greater will our faith 
be in God when we are delivered. While the 
church was praying for the deliverance of 
Peter, and he was taken out of prison by an 
angel in answer to prayer, those who prayed 
had their faith greatly strengthened; for their 
peril was great, the deliverance was also 
great, and their faith all the stronger by being 
put to such a severe test. 

A LIFE OF FAITH TURNS CRUEL TREATMENT 
FROM OTHERS TO GOOD ACCOUNT. 

And he knelt down, and cried with a loud 
voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. 
And when he had said this he fell asleep. — 
Acts vii. 60. 

In this case how forcible is the disposition 

set forth to our view; instead of feelings of 

revenge and words of anger and threatenings 

and praying for God's vengeance to be poured 

out upon them like a flood of waves from the 

lake that burns with unquenchable fire, 
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Stephen's words were words of love, his 
thoughts were thoughts of mercy, and his 
prayer reaching its highest possible degree of 
love. 

A LIFE OF FAITH ENDURES TEMPTATION. 

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, 
for when he is tried he shall receive the 
crown of life (righteousness), which the Lord 
hath promised to them that love him. — Jas. i. 1 2. 

Why does a life of faith endure temptation? 
Because it pleases God; second, because faith 
is assured that temptation shall not be so 
strong but what God will make a way for our 
escape. Faith has no fears, no dread, no 
fainting, no darkness ; because God is faithful. 
Faith sees the crown of life awaiting in the 
home of the soul; hence a life of faith sees 
all things work together for good to them 
that love God. 

A LIFE OF FAITH UTILIZES TEMPTATIONS 
FROM SATAN. 

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, 
Satan hath desired to have you, that he might 
sift you as wheat. — Luke xxii. 31. 



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Christians that have studied the devices of 
Satan know when he presents his most pow- 
erful temptation it is when he sees great dan- 
ger approaching and damage is to be done to 
his kingdom. Then the Christian, seeing this, 
takes the advantage, and with great zeal, 
faith, hope, and joy, uses his weapons so skill- 
fully that Satan can not stand before him. 
Satan dreads to attack such a soldier. Yet 
he desired to destroy Peter, because Peter 
proved would be a bold, fearless, and daring 
enemy. Take courage, then, when he comes 
with great force, for there is some great good 
to be gained. 

A life of faith rejoices to know that infirmi- 
ties are as agencies used by our Father that 
the power of Christ may rest upon us. 

I therefore take pleasure in infirmities, in 
reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in 
distresses for Christ's sake, for when I am weak 
then am I strong. — 2 Cor. xii. 10. 

Paul prayed that his infirmities might be 
removed, but God said to him, My grace is 
sufficient. As long as we are weighed down 
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will feel the need of grace, and we are as- 
sured we shall get it and that the power of 
Christ shall rest upon us; hence faith rejoices 
in these great trials, for help will come. 

a life of faith expects temptations from 

the world and endures them for 

Christ's sake. 

But God forbid I should glory save in the 
cross of Christ, by whom the world is cruci- 
fied to me and I unto the world. — Gal. vi. 14. 

The world has its charms for the Christian 
as well as the sinner. A young lady to for- 
sake all her home pleasures and go as a mis- 
sionary to Japan is a crucifixion. To forsake 
our wife and children for Christ's sake is a 
crucifixion. To be compelled to die daily is 
a perpetual crucifixion. Yet a life of faith 
kisses these chains with joy. A life of faith 
knows how to dispose of sickness to get good 
out of it. Himself took our infirmities and 
our sicknesses. — Matt. viii. 17. 

It matters not how good we are, how 
holy we are, nor how wise we may be, nor 
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health, we will be sick. No one of these 
things, nor all of them combined, can exempt 
us from sickness. Yet we take sweet com- 
fort in the thought that Jesus will make all 
our bed in our sickness. If our faith is not 
strong enough to prevail in prayer for healing 
when it is his will for us to be sick it will work 
out good. It may be our sickness is the only 
thing that will lead some soul to Christ. 

A LIFE OF FAITH CLINGS TO CHRIST IN 
TIMES OF SPIRITUAL DARKNESS. 

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; 
but with great mercies will I gather thee. — 
Isa. liv. 7. 

Sometimes the Holy Spirit is withdrawn 
from us and we grope our way in darkness. 
We can not remember any thing we have 
done or said to cause such an experience. 
The dark time came upon us for good. We 
may have our minds and hearts set on things 
or some work that is not in accordance with 
God's will, and the darkness is sent to divert 
our attention. It may be that we are too 
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dition, and this darkness arouses us, and we 
take hold of Jesus with earnestness and find 
great relief in other work. In such seasons 
of darkness faith clings to Jesus for light. 

A LIFE OF FAITH LEARNS THE BENEFIT OF 

ADVERSITY. 

And not only so, but we glory in tribulation 
also; knowing that tribulation worketh pa- 
tience, and patience experience, and experi- 
ence hope: and hope maketh not ashamed, 
because the love of God is shed abroad in our 
hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto 
us. — Rom. v. 3-5. 

The farmer knows before a bountiful har- 
vest there must be toil and trouble, but he pa- 
tiently bears it in hope of a good experience 
when he shall have plenty to supply his table. 
The housewife toils, and is troubled to keep 
the house in order, the garments washed and 
ironed, but she knows a clean floor and clean 
garments on Sunday morning are good. So 
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A LIFE OF FAITH LEANS ALL ITS WEIGHT ON 
JESUS WHEN OPPRESSED. 

The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, 
a refuge in time of trouble. — Ps. ix. 9. 

Saint James says, Do not rich men oppress 
you and bring you before the judgment seat? 
God in his goodness has been faithful to keep 
his covenant he made with Noah, that seed- 
time and harvest should not fail as long as the 
bow is seen painted on the dark cloud; but 
unfaithful men, avaricious men, unfeeling men, 
gather up the hard earnings of the poor to 
make to themselves great riches. How 
happy we would be if, like true brothers, we 
divide equally what our Father gives us; but 
we are oppressed, but faith says it will not be 
so always. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS NOT DISMAYED IN TIME 

OF FAMINE. 

Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them 
that hope in his mercy — Ps. xxxiii. 18. 

To deliver their souls from death, and to 
keep them alive in famine. — Ps. xxxiii. 19. 

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because I fear God; and second, I believe 
God. What does he say? First, his eye is 
upon me; second, to deliver my soul from 
death; third, to keep me alive in famine. 
Therefore the child of faith trusting God 
hopes in his great mercy. If the fig tree 
shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the 
vine; the labor of the olive shall fail and the 
fields yield no fruit, yet I will rejoice. — Hab. 
i. 17. 

THE LIFE OF FAITH FINDS JOY AND RELIEF 
EVEN IN TIME OF AN EARTHQUAKE. 

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, 
so that the foundations of the prisons were 
shaken: and immediately all the doors were 
opened, and every one's bands were loosed. — 
Acts xvi. 26. 

An earthquake produces great terror to the 
ungodly, but to the child of God there can be 
no evil, although it may be the way God will 
take us out of this world; yet the Christian 
feels safe in the hands of God. It was sweet 
to these prisoners to feel the shaking of the 
earth when it even broke the chains that con- 



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fined them. If death comes in an earthquake 
it will be only to break the chains to let us go 
home. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS SURE OF GOD'S PROM- 
ISES IN ALL THE TRIALS OF LIFE. 

Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto 
thy name; the upright shall dwell in thy pres- 
ence. — Ps. cxl. 13. 

Elijah was lonesome and sad when he sat 
down under the juniper tree and said, " Lord, 
take away my life." But in the midst of this 
great despondency and wilderness solitude he 
found himself in the presence of God, and to 
break the gloom God called to him, What 
doest thou here, Elijah? — 1 Kings xix. 13. 

Be not covetous, and be content with such 
things as ye have, for he hath said, I will 
never leave thee nor forsake thee, — Heb. xiii. 

A LIFE OF FAITH STANDS READY FOR GREAT 
NATIONAL TROUBLES. 

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of 
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things must come to pass, but the end is not 
yet. — Matt. xxiv. 6. 

Our blessed Savior has told us plainly that 
there will be great national troubles, and what 
we are to do in such times: see to it that ye 
are not troubled. It will be a blessing to all 
faithful Christians whether the war be at home 
or abroad. There are some great disasters 
that we will share in if we fail to do our duty 
as citizens and Christians. But when we have 
done our whole duty then be quiet from the 
fear of evil, for we shall dwell safely if we 
hearken to God. 

A LIFE OF FAITH MURMURS NOT AGAINST 

GOD NOR MAN. 

And in the morning then shall ye see the 
glory of the Lord: for that he heareth your 
murmurings against the Lord; and what are 
we, that ye murmur against us? — Ex. xvi. 7. 

God can not do wrong. He does all things 
well. He never makes any mistakes, there- 
fore it is wise, it is reasonable, it is becoming, 
and altogether profitable, to believe and prove 
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his will is good, acceptable, and perfect. And 
as to our brethren in the Lord, we should 
always obey the apostolic injunction: Do all 
things without murmuring and disputings, 
that ye may be blameless and harmless, the 
sons of God. — Phil. ii. 14, 15. 

A LIFE OF FAITH MAKES GOD'S WILL OUR 

WILL. 

I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, 
thy law is within my heart. — Ps. xl. 8. 

The most delightful exercise and sweetest 
experience we can have in life is to know that 
we are doing God's will. The Lord Jesus, 
who has redeemed us and has gone to heaven 
to prepare a place for us, he knows all about 
us, our failures, our unworthiness, our sins, 
yet he condescends to give us of his Spirit so 
as we can know by its internal workings that 
we are doing his will. We often feel glad in 
our hearts, and the spontaneous outflow of 
our heart is, Blessed be the God and Father 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath begotten 
us again unto a lively hope of an inheritance 
incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not 
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A LIFE OF FAITH IS A LIFE OF GROWTH IN 

GRACE. 

But grow in grace and in the knowledge 
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; to him 
be glory both now and forever, Amen. — 2 
Peter iii. 18. 

A ship will move rapidly on the ocean when 
there is a strong breeze to fill the sails, even 
without an engine to propel it, but if there is 
a dead calm it can not move. So when we 
set out for glory and heaven we must get the 
breezes to fill our souls, even the Holy Ghost, 
by which we move on joyfully. And when 
our vessel is in motion and our compass points 
in the direction, we know we are journeying 
to our blessed home on high, and that we are 
growing in grace. 

A LIFE OF FAITH FEEDS UPON THE WORD OF 
GOD THAT IT MAY GROW IN GRACE. 

Wherefore laying aside all malice and all 
guile and all hypocrisies and envyings and 
evil speakings, as new born babes desire the 
sincere milk of the word that ye may grow 
thereby. — 1 Peter ii. 1, 2. 



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It is not enough that we should study the 
word of God carefully but prayerfully, that 
we may grow in grace. It is also needful for 
us to attend the preaching of the word, that 
we may be taught of God by the mouth of 
his servants whenever the Holy Spirit has 
made them our overseers to watch for our 
souls, and that they are told by our Savior, 
"Feed my lambs," "feed my sheep." 

A life of faith is rooted and grounded in 
love, that it may grow in grace, that Christ 
may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye be- 
ing rooted and grounded in love." — Eph. iii. 17. 

Love is the only kind of soil that will pro- 
duce grace, and the only kind of soil where 
we can be so rooted that we can get such nu- 
trition as will keep up a constant growth in 
grace. Christ must dwell in our hearts by 
faith that this divine growth may be kept up. 
We can not grow into grace, but we must 
grow in grace, and that, too, by being rooted 
and grounded in love. If ye keep my com- 
mandments ye shall abide in my love, as I 
have kept my Father's commandments and 
abide in his love. — John xv. 11. 



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A LIFE OF FAITH SEEKS TO BE ESTABLISHED 

IN ORDER TO A CONSTANT GROWTH 

IN GRACE. 

Rooted and built up in him, and stablished 
in the faith, as ye have been taught, abound- 
ing therein with thanksgiving. — Col. ii. 7. 

That which is good to us we desire that it 
should be permanent and established. Truth 
is an established principle or rule of conduct. 
Christ is the truth because he has established 
all the rules that are to control us in our outer 
life, and our inner life as well. To be rooted 
in Christ, to be built up in Christ by faith, and 
then to abide in such faith with a heart full of 
thanksgiving, is pleasing to God, encouraging 
to our Christian friends, and an inducement to 
sinners to seek Christ; and this secures to us 
a growth in grace. 

A LIFE OF FAITH SEEKS TO KNOW WHAT 

GRACE IS. 

And if by grace, then it is no more of works; 
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it 
be of works, then it is no more grace; other- 
wise work is no more work. — Rom. xi. 6. 



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This verse teaches us what grace is. Grace 
is contrasted with works. To be saved by 
our own efforts, our own strength, our own 
conformity to rules of morality, is to be saved 
by works. To be saved by grace, to get par- 
don from God without any merit on our part, 
to get the love of God in our hearts, to cast 
out fear, to work out faith, to fulfill the law, 
to constrain us to deny ourselves, to seek the 
good of others, to hope all things, is the Bible 
definition of grace. 

A LIFE OF FAITH MUST KNOW WHAT IS 
MEANT BY GROWING IN GRACE. 

But speaking the truth in love may grow up 
into him in all things, which is the head, even 
Christ. — Eph. iv. 15. 

A growing Christian is not dumb. We 
speak of the good things we are receiving 
day by day from our heavenly Father. We 
invariably speak the truth. We send out the 
truth from our hearts and by our lives. Our 
whole testimony is sent out in a chariot of 
love drawn by the swift horses of faith and 
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patience, in meekness, gentleness, temperance, 
zeal, fidelity, humility, strength, charity, kind- 
ness, longsuffering, joy, tenderheartedness, 
courage, endurance, confession, giving, for- 
giving, thanksgiving, and devotion. 

A LIFE OF FAITH MUST KNOW WHAT IS MEANT 
BY GRACE IN US. 

And of his fullness have we all received, 
and grace for grace. — John i. 16. 

Grace can not come from any other source 
but God. God gives it to us. Grace in us is 
the receiving of the divine nature into our 
soul life. Christ formed in us the hope of 
glory. God puts the first seed in our hearts. 
This is our capital stock to begin with, and as 
money makes money, so grace makes grace. 
God will not bestow his grace in vain. — 2 
Cor. vi. 1. 

We can not serve God as his dear children, 
as a son serves a father, unless a capital is 
given to us to begin with; as it is written, 
Let us have grace whereby we may serve 
God acceptably. — Heb. xii. 28. 



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a life of faith realizes that grace 
comes alone from god. 

According to the grace of God which is 
given unto me as a wise master-builder, I 
have laid the foundation and another buildeth 
thereon. — 1 Cor. iii. 10. 

We may understand the plan of salvation, 
and be familiar with the meaning of grace to 
a certain extent without the aid of the Holy 
Spirit, and conform to the requirements in so 
far as human ability can possibly do, and yet 
we are far from being true Christians. That 
which saves the soul and opens the gate 
through which we must enter where we can 
feed in green pastures and drink of the still 
waters, is a spiritual knowledge, a real enter- 
ing into by faith, of the words of our Savior. 

A LIFE OF FAITH FINDS INFINITE REPOSE IN A 
GROWTH IN GRACE. 

And God is able to make all grace abound 
toward us, that ye always having all suffi- 
ciency in all things may abound to every good 
work. — 2 Cor. ix. 8. 

If we believe that all things work together 
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for good to them that love God as we con- 
stantly believe that the sun will rise every 
morning, the legitimate result would be in- 
finite repose. In taking in all the will of God 
in heart faith and in heart patience, we would 
have endless contentment, everlasting conso- 
lation, heart comfort, joy unspeakable, peace 
like a river, our righteousness as the waves of 
the sea, abiding in the love of God, and our 
thanksgiving would go up to God continually. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS A LIFE OF SERVICE. 

If any man serve me, let him follow me; 
and where I am there shall also my servant 
be; if any man serve me, him will my Father 
honor. — John xii. 26. 

No man can serve two masters that stand 
directly and constantly opposed to each other. 
God and Satan can not be served by us at the 
same time; we must live all the time for one 
or the other. 

A LIFE OF FAITH TAKES GOD FOR ITS POR- 
TION IN TIME AND ETERNITY. 

As for me and my house we will serve. 
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It is said of the same man, He followed 
God wholly. Of the inhabitants of heaven it is 
said that they serve God day and night. — 
Rev. vii. 15. 

A LIFE OF FAITH FINDS GREAT PLEASURE 
IN THE SERVICE OF GOD. 

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the 
fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make 
them drink of the river of thy pleasures. — 
Ps. xxxvi. 8. 

When the Queen of Sheba had taken a 
view of the riches, the honor, all the resources 
of King Solomon's pleasures, she said : The 
half was never told. In the language of this 
verse she was ready to say of all his subjects, 
The half was never told as to the pleasure 
and fatness of the king's house. But a life of 
.faith finds sweeter pleasures in the fatness of 
God's house and in the river of life than 
tongue can tell. All the things thou canst de- 
sire are not to be compared unto her, — 
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A LIFE OF FAITH HAS NO PLEASURE IN THE 

SERVICE OF GOD UNLESS THE LORD 

IS PRESENT. 

And he said unto him, If thy presence go 
not with me, carry us not up hence. For 
wherein shall it be known here that I and thy 
people have found grace in thy sight, is it not 
in that thou goest with us? — Ex. xxxiii. 15, 16. 

The true child of faith knows that it is haz- 
ardous to lean unto its own understanding, 
but realizes the Lord leads us in paths of 
righteousness for his name's sake; therefore, 
we have no pleasure in any work we do for 
the Lord unless we can have his presence, 
that we may have courage though our enemies 
be strong. 

A LIFE OF FAITH EXPECTS TO BEAR THE 
CROSS UNTO THE END OF LIFE. 

And whosoever doth not bear his cross and 
corneth after me, can not be my disciple. — 
Luke xiv. 27. 

We never can reach to such a high degree 
of grace in this life when we will not have 
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strive, we are to be chastened, we are to con- 
tend, we are to fast, we are to resist, we are 
to deny ourselves, we are to be persecuted, 
and we are to be tried. All these things will 
overtake us more or less every day as we 
journey from earth to heaven, yet this is serv- 
ing God. And when the fight is over it is 
sweet to feel we have conquered; when we 
strive and overcome it is a sweet experience. 
Therefore we have pleasure in such service. 

A life of faith finds a cross even when we 
are full of love and joy. As sorrowful, yet 
always rejoicing. — 2 Cor. vi. 10. We are 
often full of love and joy poured out in rich 
profusion upon us, and our lives render praise 
to God and the Lamb. Yet in the midst of all 
this sorrow comes in like a flood, when we are 
reminded that we are to look after those who 
have left their first love and are letting the 
work of the Lord die in their community, yet 
as it relates to our own hope, our own elec- 
tion, our own salvation, we have no fears. So 
the strength of faith can not soar above the 
cross, but we can always bear it joyfully. 

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hands of God that we may serve him. But 
by the grace of God I am what I am, and his 
grace which was bestowed upon me was not in 
vain; but I labored more abundantly than 
they all, yet not I, but the grace of God that 
was with me. — i Cor. xv. 10. 

A life of faith in God's service looks not to 
merit, nor mental endowments, neither to 
Bible knowledge for success, but to the blessed 
grace of God. All the Christian experiences 
and power of Paul was the grace of God be- 
stowed. All the mighty work he did was not 
of him, but by the grace that was with him. 
Therefore we shall be happy when we shall 
arrive at the same experience. It is all of 
grace. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS BEING GUIDED BY THE 
HOLY GHOST. 

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God 
they are the sons of God. — Rom. viii. 14. 

Our Lord Jesus Christ, the head and repre- 
sentative of his church, was led by the Spirit 
in all his work. So must a life of faith. As 
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Christian without power unless filled with the 
Spirit. We are to pray with the Spirit, to 
sing with the Spirit. We are to be guided by 
the Spirit. We are to be able to mortify the 
deeds of the body by the Spirit. We are to 
worship God in Spirit and in truth. He is to 
be our great comforter through all the strug- 
gles of life. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS GUIDED BY THE SPIRIT 
IN JUDGMENT. 

The meek shall he guide in judgment. — 
Ps. xxv. 9. 

Let us look back on our past history, and 
we will see that if we had been guided by 
our judgment we would have succeeded 
much better in life, and in all the relations of 
life. But we are prone to let our passions, 
our inclinations, prejudices, guide us, and 
it has proved a great disadvantage to us. 
Now, if our judgment be generally correct, see 
what an advantage we have if the Spirit is to 
guide the judgment in a life of faith. When 
Bunyan was led by the Spirit and his judg- 
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cause of Christ to submit to imprisonment 
than to go free and deny the Lord Jesus, we 
see the Spirit guiding him in his judgment. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS GUIDED BY THE SPIRIT 
IN THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE. 

Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come 
he will guide us into all truth. — John xvi. 13. 

That part of the Bible that brings the love 
of God into the heart is not understood with- 
out him. The natural man receiveth not the 
things of the Spirit, for they are foolishness 
unto him; neither can he know them because 
they are spiritually discerned. — 1 Cor. ii. 14. 
We should seek to be filled with the Spirit 
and to be baptized with it for service as well. 
When this is our state of heart and mind we 
are guided by the Spirit in the stud} 7 of the 
Bible. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS GUIDED BY THE SPIRIT 
IN RAISING OUR CHILDREN. 

And ye fathers, provoke not your children 
to wrath; but bring them up in the nurture 
and admonition of the Lord. — Eph. vi. 4. 

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and when he is old he will not depart from 
it. — Prov. xxii. 6. This can not be done unless 
we are under the influence of the Holy Spirit. 
He must have the complete control of all our 
powers and capacities, working in us to will 
and to do of his good pleasure, if we are pre- 
pared to raise up our children as we ought. 
Therefore we can not afford to go through 
life without him. A life of faith is guided in 
temporal things by the Spirit. Be not covet- 
ous, but be content with such things as ye have, 
for he hath said, I will never leave thee nor 
forsake thee. Trust in the Lord and do good; 
so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily 
thou shalt be fed. — Ps. xxxvii. Acknowledge 
him in all your ways, and he will direct your 
paths. — Prov. iii. 6. Honor the Lord with thy 
substance and with the first fruits of all thine 
increase, so shalt thy barns be filled with 
plenty. — Prov. iii. 9. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS NOT GUIDED IN THAT 
WE CAN DO WITHOUT HIS GUIDANCE. 

And Jesus said, No man having put his 
hands to the plow and looking back is fit for 
the kingdom. — Luke ix. 62. 



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We can " fill the water pots to the brim," 
but we can not turn the " water to wine." 
We can " take away the stone," but we can 
not raise the dead. We can bring our chil- 
dren to God in prayer, but we can not regen- 
erate them. We plow the ground, but we 
can not make a corn silk. We must not wait 
nor ask the Spirit to guide us in a special and 
absolute way to do what we can do without 
him. 

A LIFE OF FAITH WILL ASK FOR THE GUID- 
ANCE OF THE SPIRIT. 

If ye, being evil, know how to bring good 
gifts unto your children, how much more will 
your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to 
them that ask him. — Luke xi. 13. 

We are required by the word of God not to 
quench the Spirit, not to grieve the Spirit, not 
to resist the Spirit, because if we do we shall 
fail to receive it when we ask for it. But 
when we live right before God and man, this 
is not enough; we must ask if we would re- 
ceive. Therefore, a life of faith lives by ask- 
ing and receiving. 



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A LIFE OF FAITH BELIEVES IT WILL RE- 
CEIVE THE GUIDANCE OF THE SPIRIT. 

And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in 
prayer, believing, ye shall receive them. — 
Matt. xxi. 22. 

There are times when ministers of the gos- 
pel are so silent it is impossible for them to 
know just what course to pursue. In such 
great struggles we are to cry to God for the 
Spirit to guide us, and if we believe, it will be 
done. So it is with mothers in training their 
children; they are often overwhelmed with 
fear that they are going to make failures in 
bringing up their children; but faith looks up 
to Jesus and cries for wisdom and it is granted, 
and we are joyful. In a life of faith we must 
be sure that it is in accordance with the will of 
God to guide us by his Spirit. As they min- 
istered unto the Lord and fasted, the Holy 
Ghost said, Separate me, Barnabas and Saul 
for the work whereunto I have called them — 
Acts xiii. 3. We do not know whether the 
Spirit speaks with an audible voice or not, but 
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stood that these two men were to go out on 
a missionary tour by the positive direction of 
the Hoi) 7 Spirit. So it is perfectly clear that 
to go was in full accordance with the will of 
God. A life of faith is unwilling to take any 
work unless it is in accordance with the will 
of God. 

A LIFE OF FAITH WAITS FOR THE SPIRIT 
TO GUIDE IT. 

And being assembled together with them, 
commanded them that they should not depart 
from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of 
the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of 
me. — Acts i. 4. 

When we ask God for a blessing, or any 
thing that we need, and he does not grant it 
at once, we are very apt to conclude that we 
are at fault, or our sins are offensive to God, 
or we are in some way so self-seeking that 
God can not. It is not any one of these things 
that keeps back the blessing, but it is waiting 
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A LIFE OF FAITH OBEYS AT ONCE THE 
MONITIONS OF THE SPIRIT. 

Verily I say unto you, Wheresover this gos- 
pel shall be preached in the whole world there 
shall also this that woman hath done be told 
for a memorial of her. — Matt. xvi. 13. 

Mary, no doubt, was led by the Spirit to this 
act that was so important at this time of our 
Savior's sacrifice. She did not hesitate or 
consult any one about the propriety of such 
an act, but acted promptly, because she was 
led by the Spirit. She was highly honored by 
her Lord in this act. So when impressed to 
do something for the glory of God, never fail 
to act promptly. 

A LIFE OF FAITH DOES NOT SEEK THE GUID- 
ANCE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN THE DIRECTION 
IS GIVEN IN GOD'S WRITTEN WORD. 

What adorning! Let it not be that out- 
ward adorning of the plaiting the hair and 
wearing of gold or of putting on of apparel, 
but let it be the hidden man of the heart in 
the which is not corruptible, even the orna- 



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ment of a meek and quiet spirit which is, in 
the sight of God, of great price. We would 
be acting very silly if we should go to God 
in prayer and ask him to direct us by his 
Spirit as to the manner of adorning our per- 
son when the direction is so explicit in his 
word. But the adorning of the inner man is 
the one that needs the guidance of the Spirit. 

A LIFE OF FAITH DOES NOT ASK FOR THE 
SPIRIT TO GUIDE IN WORDS. 

Let no corrupt communication proceed out 
of your mouth, but that which is good to the 
use of the edifying, that it may minister grace 
unto the hearer. — Eph. iv. 29. 

There would be no use, neither would it be 
wise, to ask God what should be the kind of 
communications which should proceed out of 
our mouths when it is so plainly revealed in this 
verse. We are to be good ministers of his 
grace to the edifying of those with whom we 
associate. God has made us rich in all knowl- 
edge and in all utterance, so we should give 
utterance to that which will be a blessing to 
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A LIFE OF FAITH NEEDS NOT TO ASK TO BE 

GUIDED BY THE SPIRIT IN OUR CONDUCT 

TOWARD OUR ENEMIES. 

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but 
rather give place to wrath; for it is written, 
Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the 
Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger feed 
him, if he thirst give him drink, for in so do- 
ing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil 
with good. — Rom. xii. 19-21. 

When we are hungry we must eat, when 
we are tired we must rest, when we are thirsty 
we must drink. This is quite plain, but no 
plainer than how we are to treat our enemies; 
therefore we need no revelation by the Spirit 
on this point. 

A LIFE OF FAITH DOES NOT ASK FOR THE 
GUIDANCE OF THE SPIRIT IN THE FOR- 
GIVING OF OUR BRETHREN. 

And be ye kind one to another, tender- 
hearted, forgiving one another, even as God 
for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. — Eph, 
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God's word is so plain on this point no one 
can be mistaken as to what we are to do when 
our brethren offend us and ask forgiveness. 
We are to forgive from the heart, we are to 
forgive at once, we are to forgive seventy 
times seven if they repent seventy times in 
one day. Forgive us as we forgive those that 
are indebted to us. Let us be careful to do 
all that is made plain so as we may be happy 
in this world and in the world to come. 

A LIFE OF FAITH NEEDS NOT TO ASK FOR THE 

SPIRIT TO REVEAL WHAT IS OUR DUTY AS 

TO CONFORMING TO GOD'S WORD. 

And be not conformed to this world, but be 
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind 
that ye may prove what is that good, accepta- 
ble, and perfect will of God. — Rom. xii. 2. 

Here it is made perfectly plain to our un- 
derstanding that we must live a life of con- 
formity to the word of God. If not our faith 
will weaken, for disobedience always weakens 
our confidence in getting blessings from God 
when we approach him in prayer. Therefore 
a life of faith can not afford to fail in this im- 
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A LIFE OF FAITH DOES NOT ASK GOD TO RE- 
VEAL THAT IT IS RIGHT TO PREACH THE 
GOSPEL TO ALL THE WORLD. 

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the 
world and preach the gospel to every crea- 
ture. — Mark xvi. 15. 

A life of faith, on the other hand, labors, 
toils, and suffers that the gospel may be 
preached to every creature. A life of faith 
realizes the great importance and responsibil- 
ity of evangelizing the world. It is a great 
debt we owe to Christ, who redeemed us. I 
am debtor both to the Greek and to the Bar- 
barian; both to the wise and the unwise. — 
Rom. i. 14. All faithful Christians are charged 
with this great debt, and will take us until our 
dying day to discharge the debt; there is no 
time to be lost. 

A LIFE OF FAITH DOES NOT ASK GOD TO 

REVEAL THAT IT IS RIGHT TO BE SOBER, 

JUST, HOLY, TEMPERATE, AND A 

LOVER OF GOOD MEN. 

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good 
men, sober, just, holy, temperate. — Titus i. 8. 

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A life of faith on this side of the subject is 
anxious to know from the Lord more fully 
what are the resources of all the graces of the 
Spirit, that they may draw from them power; 
that they may be more efficient workers in 
the cause of Christ; that they may please 
God more fully every day of their remaining 
time on earth; that their joy may be full; that 
their comfort may be in God constantly, and 
that their fellowship with Jesus may be sweet. 

A LIFE OF FAITH DOES NOT ASK GOD TO 

REVEAL THAT IT IS RIGHT FOR ALL 

CHRISTIANS TO BE UNITED IN 

CHURCH WORK. 

Neither pray I for these alone, but for all them 
also which shall believe on me through their 
word; that they all may be one in us as thou 
art in me and I in thee; that they also may be 
one in us, that the world may believe that 
thou didst send me. — John xvii. 20, 21. 

A life of faith is busy in laboring in much 
patience and zeal in order to bring all denom- 
inations to work hand in hand for the conver- 
sion of the world, for the overthrow of Sa- 



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tan's kingdom, and the spread of the gospel 
on every nation on earth. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS A LIFE OF CONTEST 
AGAINST TEMPTATION. 

For in that he himself suffered being 
tempted, he is able to succor them that are 
tempted. — Heb. ii. 18. 

A life of faith is not so anxious to be shut 
out from temptation as they are to live so 
faithful as always to endure them when their 
trials come. We are to be on the watch for 
temptations from the world, from Satan, and 
the flesh. Our blessed Savior said, Watch 
and pray that ye enter not into temptation. 
We can not expect to keep them all away, 
but it is a great comfort to know that Christ 
will not suffer us to be tempted above that we 
are able. 

A LIFE OF FAITH EXPECTS TEMPTATIONS TO 

THE END OF LIFE, BUT THROUGH CHRIST 

TO OVERCOME THEM. 

And ye shall be hated of all men for my 
name's sake; but he that endureth to the end 
shall be saved. — Matt. x. 22. 



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Perhaps )^ou never have seen a family of 
little children lying dead from starvation at 
one time in the same house when the father 
and mother were both hearty, young, and 
stout, because in all such households the 
father and mother toil early and late to feed 
and clothe them. But they know it will not 
do to stop their work, for this would bring on 
starvation. They believe and work to the 
end. So in our Christian life we must toil to 
the end; we believe that we will conquer 
through him that loved us. 

A LIFE OF FAITH REALIZES THAT TEMPTA- 
TIONS ARE NOT SINFUL. 

For we have not an high priest which can 
not be touched with a feeling of our infirmi- 
ties but was in all points tempted like as we 
are, yet without sin. — Heb. iv. 15. 

It is a matter of great joy to the child of 
faith to realize that temptations are hard to 
overcome, but at the same time we may over- 
come by faith in Christ, and we have received 
no harm from temptation, but rather a bless- 
ing will grow out of it in the end; for the 



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Lord hath said, Blessed is the man that en- 
dureth temptation; for when he is tried he 
shall realize that the more holy and useful we 
are the greater the temptation. And he said 
unto me, These are they which came out of 
great tribulation and have washed their robes 
and made them white in the blood of the 
Lamb. — Rev. vii. 14. The faithful Christian 
is not dismayed because he finds himself sur- 
rounded with troubles. He knows he is 
coming out of troubles. The place where 
we start for heaven is where the enemy 
assailed us and will continue to fight us to 
the end. But thanks be to God we know 
every day brings us nearer to the door where 
we shall come out of tribulation and fly home 
to heaven. 

A LIFE OF FAITH NEVER GETS DISCOUR- 
AGED BECAUSE OF TEMPTATIONS. 

The Lord is my light and my salvation; 
whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength 
of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? — Ps. 
xxvii. 1. 

The Lord is my light now, and will be to 
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darkness, for the path of the just is as the 
shining light that shineth more and more unto 
the perfect day. — Prov. iv. 18. The Lord is 
my salvation; I shall be delivered in the time 
of trouble. The Lord is my strength; I shall 
repulse all my enemies, for we are more than 
conquerors through him that loved us. — Rom. 
viii. 37. Therefore a life of faith never gets 
discouraged because of temptations. 

A LIFE OF FAITH UNDERSTANDS THAT WE 
ARE HERE TO BE TRIED. 

Beloved, think it not strange concerning 
the fiery trial, which is to try you, as though 
some strange thing happened unto you. — 1 
Peter iv. 12. As the Apostle James under- 
stood this subject as well as Peter, let us take 
comfort and rejoice as we read what he said 
to us: My brethren, count it all joy when ye 
fall into divers temptations. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS A LIFE OF HONESTY 

WITH GOD, WITH MAN, AND WITH 

OURSELVES. 

Search me, O God, and know my heart; 
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there be any wicked way in me, and lead me 
in the way everlasting. — Ps. cxxxix. 23. 

In this verse the heart is laid open to the 
eye of God, fully convinced of honesty before 
God. If there is any wicked way in me put 
me to the test that I may find it out and turn 
away from it; for I desire above all things to 
be led by thee in the way of life everlasting. 
To be deceived in the end of life as to our 
salvation is an experience that an honest man 
dreads. To be true to God, to man, is a life 
of faith. 

A LIFE OF FAITH LEADS TO REPENTANCE 
WHEN WE DO WRONG. 

My little children, these things I write unto 
you that ye sin not. And if any man sin we 
have an advocate with the Father, Jesus 
Christ, the righteous, and he is the propitia- 
tion for our sins; and not for ours only, but 
also for the sins of the whole world. — 1 John 
ii. 1, 2. 

It is evident from this scripture that all 
Christians are liable to sin. Our sins may be 
of two kinds — First, willful sin; and second. 



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not willful. A willful sin is to do wrong with 
our eyes open and our judgment and con- 
science are against us, and the act produces 
condemnation. Second, sins that are not willful 
are consequent upon ignorance and our in- 
firmities, but do not produce condemnation. 
An honest, faithful Christian repents of both. 

A LIFE OF FAITH LEADS TO CONFESSION OF 

SIN AND TO BELIEVE THAT PARDON 

IS GRANTED AT ONCE. 

If we confess our sins he is faithful and just 
to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all 
unrighteousness. — i John i. 9. 

We are authorized to plead the love, the 
mercy, the compassion, the pity, and the blood 
of the Lamb for the remission of sins when 
we approach him as unconverted persons; 
but when we become heirs of God we can 
add to our list of pleadings with God even 
his faithfulness and his justice. Not only are 
we pardoned, but clean from all unrighteous- 
ness, which makes us whiter than snow. We 
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A LIFE OF FAITH LEARNS THE DIFFERENCE 
BETWEEN DOUBT AND A TEMPTA- 
TION TO DOUBT. 

And while they believed not for joy and 
wonder, he said unto them, Have ye here any 
meat? — Luke xxiv. 41. 

This passage expresses a real doubt. The 
evidence before them is so convincing that it 
produces real joy, but the strangeness of the 
testimony was so wonderful that it was hard 
to receive it. So in many of our experiences 
after conversion, they carry such testimony 
that we can not refrain from rejoicing, yet we 
question the correctness and truthfulness of 
the testimony; joy and sorrow both claim and 
wrangle in our hearts for the ascendency. 

A life of faith will not entertain a sugges- 
tion to doubt, that comes from Satan. Neither 
give place to the devih — Eph.iv. 27. If Satan 
suggests to you that your conversion is not 
real, but' false, and you give place in your 
mind and heart to that temptation, and it 
gives you darkness, confusion, trouble, and 
fear, you may set it down that your conver- 



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sion is correct, because your trouble comes 
because of your giving place to Satan. He 
drives the Holy Spirit from you, and this 
grieves him and he takes his comfort out of 
your heart, and you may know by this that 
your comfort will return as soon as you dis- 
miss Satan. 

A LIFE OF FAITH LEARNS WHEN SATAN SUG- 
GESTS A TEMPTATION TO DOUBT TO 
TAKE IT TO JESUS IN PRAYER. 

And they overcame him by the blood of 
the Lamb, and by the testimony of their 
word. — Rev. xii. n. 

We can not fail to repulse Satan when we 
take it to the Lord in prayer; for it is written, 
Now is the judgment of this world, now shall 
the prince of this world be cast out. — John 
xii. 31. 

Nay, in all these things we are more than 
conquerors through him that loved us. — Rom. 
viii. 37. 

I can do all things through Christ strength- 
ening me.— Phil. iv. 13. 

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ye are strong, and the word of God abideth 
in you, and ye have overcome the wicked 
one. — i John ii. 14. 

A LIFE OF FAITH LEARNS THAT WE CAN 

NOT GROW IN GRACE WHILE WE 

ENTERTAIN DOUBTS. 

And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what 
ye shall drink, neither be of doubtful mind. 
As long as we are in careful suspense about 
our making a living for our bodies we are not 
trusting God, for it is written, Be without cov- 
etousness, and be content with such things as 
ye have, for he hath said, I will never leave 
thee nor forsake thee. — Heb. xiii. 5. 

As it relates to the soul we must not enter- 
tain any doubts for a single moment, for right 
there and then we stop growing in grace. 
Jesus has cast out Satan, crucified the flesh, 
and overcome the world. My grace is suffi- 
cient. — 2 Cor. xii. 9. 

A LIFE OF B^AITH IS A PURE ONE. 

He that abideth in me and I in him, the 
same bringeth forth much fruit: for without 
me ye can do nothing. — John xv. 5. 



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We are to know the tree by its fruits. A 
true Christian will bear fruit. There can be 
no true Christianity without heart faith. For 
with the heart man believeth unto righteous- 
ness. — Rom. x. 10. This kind of faith unites 
us to Christ. By the constant exercise of this 
faith we abide in Christ. The branches may 
abide in the vine and not bear fruit, for some 
accident may destroy it, but not so with the 
true child of God. 

The Lord shall preserve thy going out and 
thy coming in from this time forth, even for 
evermore. — Ps. cxxi. 8. 

A LIFE OF FAITH SEEKS THE GOOD OF OTHERS. 

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision 
availeth any thing nor uncircumcision, but 
faith which worketh by love. — Gal. v. 6. 

A life of faith will produce love — this faith 
works by love. As the bird flies by the use 
of its wings, yet its wings are worked by the 
power of its body; one can not work without 
the other. A faith that does nothing is like a 
good pair of wings attached to a bird with a 
wounded body. With this body of love and 



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wings of faith we fly through the world 
preaching Jesus and the resurrection, and giv- 
ing comfort to God's children. 

A LIFE OF FAITH PRODUCES A VARIETY OF 

FRUIT. 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, peace, long- 
suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meek- 
ness, temperance; against such there is no 
law. Here are nine varieties of fruit, and mix 
them completely and you label this compound 
Good works. So the biscuit that comes to 
your table, there are nine things combined: 
flour, salt, soda, lard, milk, working, fire, 
watching, and placing on the table. Our fruit 
builds up God's cause in the world, and is 
pleasant. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS A LIFE OF JOY. 

These things have I said unto you, that my 
joy might remain in you, and that your joy 
might be full. — John xv. 11. 

What things, John? In my Father's house 
are many mansions; if it were not so I would 
have told you. I go to prepare a place for 
you. I will come again and receive you unto 



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myself, that where I am there ye may be also. 
— John xiv. 2, 3. 

Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that be- 
lieveth on me the works that I do shall he do 
also; and greater works than these shall he 
do, because I go to my Father. And what- 
soever ye shall ask in my name that will I do, 
that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 
If ye shall ask any thing in my name I will do 
it; and I will pray the Father, and he shall 
give you another Comforter, that he may abide 
with you forever, even the spirit of truth. He 
that hath my commandments and keepeth 
them, he it is that loveth me; and he that lov- 
eth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will 
love him, and will manifest myself to him. — 
John xiv. 21. 

If a man love me he will keep my words, 
and my Father will love him, and we will 
come and make our abode with him. He 
that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings, 
and the words which ye hear are not mine, 
but the Father's which sent me. These things 
have I spoken unto you, being yet present 
with you. But the Comforter, which is the 



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Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my 
name, he shall teach you all things, and bring 
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever 
I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, 
my peace I give unto you, not as the world 
giveth give I unto you. — John xiv. 23-28. 

I am the true vine, and my Father is the 
husbandman; every branch in me that beareth 
not fruit he taketh away, and every branch 
that beareth fruit he purgeth it, that it bring 
forth more fruit. Now ye are all clean through 
the word which I have spoken unto you. 
Abide in me and I in you. As the branch 
can not bear fruit of itself except it abide in 
the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in 
me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He 
that abideth in me and I in him, the same 
bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye 
can do nothing. If a man abide not in me he 
is cast forth as a branch and is withered, and 
men gather them and cast them into the fire 
and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and. 
my words abide in you, ye shall ask what you 
will and it shall be done unto you. Herein is 
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so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father 
hath loved me so have I loved you. If ye 
keep my commandments ye shall abide in my 
love, as I have kept my Father's command- 
ments and abide in his love. — John xv. i-io. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS JOYFUL BECAUSE OF 
FELLOWSHIP WITH THE TRINITY. 

That which we have seen and heard declare 
we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship 
with us, and truly our fellowship is with the 
Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. — I John 

i- 3- 

If there be therefore any consolation in 

Christ, if any comfort of love, if. any fellow- 
ship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies. 
— Phil. ii. i. 

Fellowship means association in this script- 
ure in the most delightful sense, a sweet fa- 
miliarity, a holy freedom, joyful communion, 
pleasurable interviews, exalted privileges, ev- 
erlasting consolation, wise council, good com- 
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A LIFE OF FAITH IS JOYFUL BECAUSE JESUS 
IS A FOURFOLD BLESSING TO HIS CHILDREN. 

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of 
God is made unto us wisdom, and righteous- 
ness, and sanctification, and redemption. — 1 
Cor. i. 30. 

Whatever may be the greatness of our 
Savior's wisdom we have the undoubted right 
to claim it and ask for its benefits, so in regard 
to his righteousness, for our righteousness is 
of God, for we have none of our own, but by 
faith we are counted righteous in Christ. We 
never can claim or attain sinless perfection in 
life, in an absolute sense, but faith secures to 
us innocence in Christ. Our redemption, all 
of grace, not of works. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS JOYFUL BECAUSE JESUS 
KNOWS ALL ABOUT US. 

Then opened he their understandings that 
they might understand the Scriptures. — Luke 
xxiv. 45. 

We can not know our hearts as Christ 
knows them, we can not know our wants as 
he does, we can not know our talent as he 
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does; neither can we know how much we 
can bear as he does, but we rejoice that he 
makes his dwelling place in our hearts. We 
rejoice to know that he will supply all our 
wants, we rejoice to know that he will use our 
talent to his glory, we rejoice that he will not 
suffer us to be tempted above that we are able 
to bear. 

A LIFE OF FAITH IS JOYFUL BECAUSE JESUS 

HAS PRAYED FOR US TO BE KEPT 

THROUGH HIS FATHER'S NAME. 

Holy Father, keep, through thine own 
name, those whom thou hast given me, that 
they may be one as we are. — John xvii. n. 

He offered this prayer for his disciples that 
they might be kept through his name, and his 
name is love. And in the 20th verse of this 
chapter he prayed for us: Neither pray I for 
these alone, but for them also which shall be- 
lieve on me through their word. 

Let us rejoice and be glad that he that 
keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep, 
The Lord is thy keeper. — Ps. cxxi. 4. 



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HOW TO ENTER INTO THIS LIFE OF FAITH. 

Come unto me all ye that labor and are 
heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — Matt. 
xi. 28. 

This verse is to the unconverted sinner who 
is heavy laden and wants rest. First, choose 
this day whom ye will serve; second, repent 
— repentance is to forsake your sins and hate 
them; third, take Jesus for your Savior re- 
gardless of feeling; fourth, give him your 
heart as a bride gives her heart to her bride- 
groom; fifth, believe on Jesus now, and this 
will give you rest. 

HOW TO GET A RESTFUL EXPERIENCE THAT 

WILL GIVE CONSTANT PEACE AND 

CONTENTMENT. 

Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, 
for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall 
find rest unto your souls. — Matt. xi. 29. 

We are to learn of Jesus, submit to him in 
all things, and make his service our every-day 
employment, and train ourselves to delight in 
all our work that he has given us to do. If 
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work for his glory, and let us keep our mind 
and heart stayed on him, and be punctual to 
pray in secret and read our Bibles every day, 
if it is but one verse at a reading, or even one 
verse each day. Above all things, take all 
the promises into your heart and you will find 
a sweet, constant rest in Jesus. 

WHAT IS THE YOKE. 

It is consecration. Lord Jesus, I now and 
forever give myself to thee; my heart to love 
thee and my brethren in the Lord, my hands 
to work for thee, my feet to carry me whither 
thou wouldst have me to go; my eyes to 
watch for thee. I give my influence to be ex- 
ercised for thee, my intellect to be used for 
thy service; my property, my friends, my rel- 
atives are all thine own. My tongue and my 
voice I give to be used for thy glory. I prom- 
ise to perform every known duty. 

Second, we must lay aside every weight as 
the Lord has taught us in his word, to wit: 
Anger, pride, malice, envy, deceit, retaliation, 
hatred, worldly-mindedness, levity, murmur- 
ing, tattling, fault-finding, Spirit-quenching, 



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moral cowardice, stinginess, exaggeration, 
peevishness, lying, censoriousness, self-will, 
neglect, gloryseeking, formality, idleness, 
Spirit-griev-ing, backbiting, idle conversation, 
intemperance, jealousy, and such like. 

Third, by the help of the Lord I will be- 
lieve and appropriate all the promises of God 
to the developing of my soul in all the Chris- 
tian graces and virtues, taking Jesus Christ as 
a perfect and a complete Savior, who has 
promised to keep me in perfect peace. Amen. 



CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY. 



I will stand upon my watch and set me 
upon the tower, and will watch to see what 
he will say unto me and what I shall answer 
when I am reproved. And the Lord an- 
swered me and said, Write the vision and 
make it plain upon tables, that he may run 
that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an 
appointed time, but at the end it shall speak 
and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it, be- 
cause it will surely come; it will not tarry. 
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not up- 
right in him, but the just shall live by faith. — 
Hab. ii. 1-4. He that hath an ear let him 
hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. — 
Rev. ii. 7. For the testimony ol Jesus is the 
spirit of prophecy. — Rev. xix. 10. I am 
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the 
ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which 
was, and which is to come. The Almighty.— 
Rev. i. 8. Jesus Christ, who is the faithful 



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witness and the first begotten of the dead, and 
the prince of the kings of the earth, unto him 
that loved us and washed us from our sins in 
his own blood, and hath made us kings and 
priests unto God and his Father, to him be 
glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. — 
Rev. 1. 5. 

THE TIME FOR THE CLEANSING OF THE 
SANCTUARY IS AT HAND. 

For the time is., come that judgment must 
begin at the house of God; and if it first be- 
gin at us, what shall the end be of them that 
obey not the gospel of God ? — 1 Peter iv. 17. 

Then I heard one saint speaking, and an- 
other saint said unto that certain saint which 
spake, How long shall be the vision concern- 
ing the daily sacrifice and the transgression of 
desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the 
host to be trodden under foot? And he said 
unto me, Two thousand and three hundred 
days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. — 
Dan. viii. 13, 14. For I would not brethren, 
that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, 
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; 



224 Miixenniai, Day-Star. 

that blindness in part has happened to Israel, 
until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. — 
Rom. xi. 25. The cleansing of the sanctuary 
is the purifying of the church, beginning about 
the year 1812, according to the rules of inter- 
pretation of the prophecies. And will con- 
tinue until the beginning of the millennium. 
This cleansing of the sanctuary has had a 
world-wide effect upon the state of societ} 7 , 
governments, education, missionary work, 
temperance, and the spread of the gospel, and 
the salvation of many souls. As the time 
draws near for the beginning of the millen- 
nium age, this will be more marked and thor- 
ough in all churches. 

A SOLEMN CALL TO THE MINISTERS OF THE 
GOSPEL OF THE PRESENT AGE. 

We are to take heed to feed the flock with 
the word of God. Take heed therefore unto 
yourselves and to all the flock, over which the 
Holy Ghost hath made you overseer, to feed 
the church of God, which he hath purchased 
with his own blood. For I know this after 
my departing shall grievous wolves' enter in, 



MlI^NNIAI, DAY-STAR. 2^5 

sparing not the flock. Also of your own 
selves shall men arise, speaking perverse 
things, to draw away disciples after them. 
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the 
space of three years I ceased not to warn 
every one of you night and day with tears. — 
Acts xx. 28-30. 

The law received and given by Moses re- 
quired two witnesses. The ministers of the 
gospel, who are appointed by the Holy Ghost, 
are witnesses of God, and their message must 
be in accordance with the Scriptures, and if 
given to the flock in the powder of the Spirit, 
will be written in the hearts of the Christians 
by the Hoi)/ Ghost. Hence the true witness. 
Let us take heed that deadness in devotion 
does not take hold of us; then we will lead 
our flocks successfully. 

WE ARE TO TAKE HEED TO SOUND DOCTRINE. 

Take heed unto thyself and unto the doc- 
trine; continue in them, for in doing this thou 
shalt both save thyself and them that hear 
thee. — 1 Tim. iv. 16. 

An honest and humble self-examination is 
here required of ourselves, and a careful and 



226 Mllyl/ENNIAI, DAY-STAR. 

prayerful examination of the subject-matter 
that we preach to our people, for upon this 
subject hinges their salvation, and also our 
own. Take heed to formality and substitut- 
ing duty for love as the motive power. I 
know thy works, and thy labor, and thy pa- 
tience, and how thou canst not bear them 
which are evil; and thou hast tried them which 
say they are apostles and are not, and hast 
found them liars; and hast borne and hast pa- 
tience, and for my name's sake hast labored 
and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have 
somewhat against thee, because thou hast left 
thy first love. Remember therefore from 
whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the 
first works, or else I will come unto thee 
quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out 
of his place, except thou repent. — Rev. ii. 1-5. 
We have in this scripture the description of 
a church that had all the qualities of an ac- 
ceptable body of believers — only one defect, 
and that was a want of a deep, fervent love 
of God in their hearts. A lack of this one 
thing caused every other quality to lose its 
virtue. A good engine, with a good engineer, 



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moves a long train of cars with plenty of 
water, wood, oil, and a good track to run 
upon, but not until the fire is applied. Take 
heed to unbelief. Let us therefore fear lest a 
promise being left us of entering into his rest 
any of you should seem to come short of it. 
For unto us was the gospel preached as well 
as unto them, but the word preached did not 
profit them, not being mixed with faith in 
them that heard it. — Heb. iv. 1, 2. 

It is certainly taught in this scripture that 
in order to be able to enter into the millennial 
rest that remains to the people of God we are 
to take heed to our faith; for a want of it we 
may come short of it. 1. Note, many of the 
Israelites failed, reached not the promised 
land, for the want of it; for without faith it is 
impossible to please God. 2. We are to labor 
to enter in: watching, praying, fighting the 
good fight of faith, going out of great tribu- 
lation, because we are to keep this one thing, 
faith, always in exercise, that we may rejoice 
when we come to the millennium gateway 
and find it left ajar for us, we can sing like 
Paul, I have kept the faith. 



228 Mii^knniai, Day-Star. 

AS FAITHFUL WATCHMEN LET US TAKE HEED, 
FOR MANY THINGS ARE READY TO DIE. 

And unto the angels of the church in Sar- 
dis write: These things saith he that hath the 
seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I 
know thy works, that thou hast a name that 
thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful, and 
strengthen the things that remain, that are 
ready to die: for I have not found thy works 
perfect before God. Remember therefore 
how thou hast received and heard, and hold 
fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not 
watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou 
shalt not know what hour I will come upon 
thee. — Rev. iii. 1-3. 

Four things are to be noted in this scripture: 
1. The church, it had a name to live, but was 
dead. 2. They were commanded to watch. 
3. Many things were ready to die. 4. Most 
solemn warning, I will come upon thee ex- 
cept thou repent. Take heed to this fearful 
warning, and see if these things that remain 
ma}/ be strengthened. 

TAKE HEED TO LUKEWARMNESS. 

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold 



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nor hot; I would that thou wert cold or hot. 
So then because thou art lukewarm and 
neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of 
my mouth. — Rev. iii. 15, 16. 

We can not fail to see at a glance to be in a 
backslidden or lukewarm state is exceedingly 
displeasing to God. If we would please him 
we must reach a higher tone feeling, for a low 
tone feeling is lukewarmness. In this we can 
not worship God in spirit and in truth, neither 
can we comfort Christians, nor be successful 
in leading souls to Christ. A high-toned feel- 
ing is a constant desire to plead with God and 
to please him; and that desire must be intense, 
not necessarily ecstatic joy, nor effusive emo- 
tions, but a condition in which we can wor- 
ship God in spirit and in truth. 

TAKE HEED TO DECEITFULNESS AND SPIR- 
ITUAL BLINDNESS. 

Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased 
in goods, and have need of nothing, and know- 
est not that thou art wretched, and miserable, 
and poor, and blind, and naked, I counsel thee 
to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou 



230 MiIvIvKnniai, Day-Star. 

mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou 
mayest be clothed, and the shame of thy 
nakedness do not appear. As many as I love 
I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, 
and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and 
knock; if any man hear my voice, and open 
the door, I will come in to him, and will sup 
with him and he with me. — Rev. iii. 17-20. 

THE FLOOR OF THE SANCTUARY WILL BE 
THOROUGHLY CLEANSED. 

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thor- 
oughly purge his floor, and the wheat will he 
gather into his garner, but the chaff will he 
burn with fire unquenchable. — Luke iii. 17. 

A TIME TO WATCH AND PRAY. 

Take ye heed, watch and pray; for ye know 
not when the time is. — Mark xiii. 33. 

THE CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE FAITHFUL PAS- 
TORS MUST GIVE EARNEST HEED TO 
OBEY THEM IN THE LORD. 

Obey them that have the rule over you and 
submit yourselves, for they watch for your souls 
as they that must give an account that they 



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may do it with joy and not with grief, for that 
is unprofitable for you. — Heb. xiii. 17. Our 
garments must be made white, and made so 
by severe trials. Many shall be purified and 
made white and tried, but the wicked shall do 
wickedly, and none of the wicked shall un- 
derstand; but the wise shall understand. — 
Dan. xii. 11. Ministers and all workers for 
Jesus are to be faithful, warning every one to 
flee the wrath to come. To whom God would 
make known what is the riches of the glory 
of the mystery among the Gentiles, which is 
Christ in you, the hope of glory. Whom we 
preach, warning every man, teaching every 
man in all wisdom; that we may present 
every man perfect in Christ Jesus. — Col. i. 27, 
28. Daniel's prayer to be offered by us for 
all Christians. Now therefore, O our God, 
hear the prayer of thy servant, and his suppli- 
cations, and cause thy face to shine upon thy 
sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's 
sake. O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; 
open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, 
and the city which is called by thy name: for 
we do not present our supplications before 



232 Millennial Day-Star. 

thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy 
great mercies. O Lord, hear; O Lord, for- 
give; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for 
thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and 
thy people are called by thy name. — Dan. ix. 
17-19. Let us remember how willing the 
Lord is to hear us and forgive us; for his 
mercy is higher than the heavens to them that 
fear him. Pray that his tender mercies may 
come upon us that we may live, and that his 
people may find themselves singing the song 
of Solomon. I sat down under his shadow, 
and his fruit was sweet to my taste. His left 
hand is under my head, and his right hand 
doth embrace me. For the winter is past, 
the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear 
in the east, and the time of the singing of 
birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is 
heard in the land. 

THE RESIDUE OF THE SPIRIT AS PROMISED 
BY THE FATHER. Acts U. 1 8. 

This scripture shows plainly that the chief 
power in the testimony of the residue of the 
Spirit will be the gift of prophecy. It is to 



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be given to both male and female. And be- 
hold I send the promise of my Father upon 
you. — Luke xxiv. 49. And on my servants 
and on my handmaids will I pour out in those 
days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. — 
Acts ii. 18. They were to receive power, not 
the whole promise of the Father on the day 
of Pentecost, implying a residue of the Spirit 
to follow. And Joel also in giving the proph- 
ecy records the Pentecost baptism and the 
residue, or double portion, in the second verse, 
after which comes the wonders in the heav- 
ens and in the earth, blood and fire and vapor 
and smoke. — Luke xxiv. 49; Acts ii. 18. The 
first division of the promise was typified by 
Elijah, reaching down to the present time, 
and will close with the Gentile age soon. This 
will be followed by the residue of the Spirit 
typified by Elisha; for he asked for a double 
portion of Elijah's spirit. The history shows 
that he obtained it. — 2 Kings ii. 10-12. And 
he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing, never- 
theless if thou see me when I am taken from 
thee it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it 
shall not be. . . . And Elisha saw it, and 

16 



234 MiiXKnnial Day-Star. 

he cried, My Father, my Father! The 
chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof. 
And he saw him no more; and he took hold 
of his own clothes and rent them in two 
pieces. It is very singular that in the same 
dispensation two prophets should arise to typ- 
ify something, as all Bible Christians believe; 
the one having the Spirit of God, and the 
other soon after succeeding in obtaining a 
double portion, and doing twice as much mi- 
raculous work. The baptism mentioned in 
Acts iv. 31 is a type of the power indicated in 
the vision. And when they had prayed, the 
place was shaken where they were assembled 
together ; and they were all filled with the 
Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God 
with boldness. After Pentecost, when the 
Holy Ghost came upon all flesh and many 
were led to accept Jesus as the Christ, it 
seemed necessary to call for another baptism 
for service, linking Pentecost to the Cornelius 
or Gentile baptism. So the Jews and the 
Gentiles can look to their type for service, as 
recorded in the fourth chapter of Acts, thirty- 
first and thirty-fourth verses. We should pray 



Milennial Day-Star. 235 

for that power and expect him in due time to 
give a double portion. That baptism was 
given to all for service. — Acts iv. 34. Great 
love and fellowship was manifest. — Acts iv. 34. 
And with great power gave the apostles wit- 
ness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus; 
and great grace was upon them all, neither 
was any among them that lacked, for as many 
as were possessors of land or houses sold 
them, and brought the prices of the things that 
were sold. We can not serve the master as 
we ought without his anointing, and when 
thus prepared we will realize that what we 
have is not our own, but the Lord's, to be dis- 
bursed for his glory as a wise steward of the 
Lord. And if ye have not been faithful in 
that which is your own, who shall give you 
that which is another man's? 

MARVELOUS POWER WILL BE GIVEN TO HEAL 

ALL MANNER OF DISEASES. 

Acts iv. 30: By stretching forth thine hand 
to heal, and that signs and wonders may be 
done by the name of the holy child Jesus. 
This principle is taught as a part of the atone- 



236 Milennial Day-Star. 

ment, and these signs shall follow them that 
believe; they shall lay their hands on the sick 
and they shall recover, for it is he who forgiv- 
eth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy dis- 
eases. The universal union of all denomina- 
tions that are consecrated to God must be 
reached through the instrumentality of faith- 
ful workers. 

John x. 15, 16: As the Father knoweth me 
even so know I the Father, and I lay down 
my life for the sheep. And other sheep I 
have which are not of this fold: them also I 
must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and 
there shall be one fold and one shepherd. 

And the Lord answered me and said, Write 
the vision, and write it plain upon tables, that 
he may run that readeth it. — Habakkuk ii. 2. 

The results of apprehending the fullness of 
Christ, as revealed in the vision, will show the 
folly of any thing that estranges Christians' 
hearts. He who reads will run to or from the 
King of kings and Lord of lords. The new 
commandment must be obeyed to prove our 
discipleship and convince sinners. 

John xiii. 34, 35: A new commandment I 



MiIvIvEnniax Day-Star. 237 

give unto you, that ye love one another; as I 
have loved you, that you love one another. 
By this shall all men know that ye are my 
disciples, if ye have love one to another. 

This world for a long time has needed this 
testimony of love to convince all men of our 
discipleship. The promised vision will pro- 
duce a great oneness in the hearts of all true 
believers. 

John xvii. 20, 21: Neither pray I for these 
alone, but for them also which believe on me 
through their word; that they all may be one, 
as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that 
they also may be one in us, that the world 
may believe that thou hast sent me. 

The oneness of believers is the source of 
power in the Lord. One can chase a thou- 
sand, and two put ten thousand to flight. This 
oneness of God's people will convince the 
world that God sent Christ to die. 

John xvii. 23: I in them and thou in me, 
that they may be made perfect in one, and the 
world may know that thou didst send me, and 
hast loved them as thou hast loved me. 

This one ness will overcome the world that 



238 MlIvIvENNlAL DAY-STAR. 

they may know, and thus be without excuse. 
May the Lord bring his people to that state 
quickly. The power that we are looking for 
will unveil the hearts of the people, at least a 
faithful few. 

Rom. xi. 25-31: For I would not, brethren, 
that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, 
lest ye should be wise in your own conceit; 
that blindness in part is happened to Israel 
until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. 
Even so have these also now not believed 
that through your mercy they also may ob- 
tain mercy. 

What a responsibility rests at our door since 
the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, yet 
through our preaching and faithfulness and 
mercy will they obtain salvation. It will bring 
in the nations with wonderful rapidity. 

Ps. ii. 8: Ask of me and I will give thee the 
heathen for thine inheritance and the utter- 
most parts of the earth for thy possession. 

The Jew convert will make the greatest 
missionary of the age: they will bring in the 
heathen. 

Open thine eyes, O thou~ sleeping Gentile. 



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Mm,ENNiAiy Day-Star. 239 

The Lord's people who are wise virgins will 
prove to be a part of the revelation of the 
mystery which was kept secret since the world 
began, but now is made manifest, and by the 
Scriptures of the prophets according to the 
commandment of the everlasting God, made 
known to all nations for the obedience of faith. 
— Rom. xvi. 25, 26. 

This mystery, which was Christ Jesus mani- 
fest in the flesh, is to be more fully appre- 
hended, and they who believe on him obey 
him, love him; for the obedience of faith will 
see him more and more as he is. The bride 
must get ready for the coming of the bride- 
groom. 

Rev. xix. 7: Let us be glad and rejoice, and 
give honor to him, for the marriage of the 
Lamb is come, and his bride hath made her- 
self ready. 

The bride made ready by Christ Jesus, the 
hope of the glory of God formed in the heart, 
for of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God 
is made unto us wisdom and righteousness 
and sanctification and redemption. Amen. 



24O MILLENNIA!* DAY-STAR. 

THE FULLNESS OF GOD. 

In order to reach this blessed state we are 
to know and do as follows: First, consecrate 
all to God forever. I beseech you therefore, 
brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye pre- 
sent your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, ac- 
ceptable to God, which is your reasonable 
service. And be not conformed to this world, 
but be ye transformed by the renewing of 
your mind, that ye may prove what is the 
good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 
— Rom. xii. 1, 2. 

We know we are not our own, for we are 
the purchase of his blood; our bodies are the 
temple of the Holy Ghost. We are flesh of 
his flesh, and bone of his bone. This body 
is the casket of the immortal soul, which is an 
heir of God and joint heir with Christ, wait- 
ing for the redemption and adoption at the 
resurrection. It is a most reasonable service 
and duty to offer it to God as a living sacrifice, 
all our powers and capacities to be under the 
complete control of the Holy Ghost. 

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to will and to do of his good pleasure. — Phil, 
ii. 13. 

The Holy Spirit is our comforter. He . is 
wise. He will control us so as we will act by 
his wisdom in all things. By him the deeds 
of the body are to be mortified. He is to 
shed abroad a Savior's love in our hearts day 
by day. He is to guide us into all truth, show- 
ing us things to come. He is to open our un- 
derstanding, reveal all things of Jesus that is 
needful for us to know. As Christ was con- 
trolled in his human nature by the Holy Ghost, 
so may we be in this life. We are to abide in 
Christ as he did in his Father's love. 

If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide 
in my love as I have kept my Father's com- 
mandments and abide in his love. — John xv. 10. 

A permanent state of contentment is se- 
cured to us by abiding in our Savior's love. 
When we arrive to a height in grace which 
is our duty, we will realize that our life is hid 
with Christ in God — the soul thoughts min- 
gling with the thoughts of God, and our fel- 
lowship is realized with the Son and with the 
Father; we will have joy unspeakable and 



242 Millennial Day-Star. 

full of glory, and our peace will be as a river. 
Every thought is to be brought into subjection 
to the will of God. 

Casting down imaginations, and every high 
thing that exalteth itself against the knowl- 
edge of God, and bringing into captivity every 
thought to the obedience of Christ. — 2 Cor. 
x. 5. 

It seems clear from this passage that its 
most easy and natural meaning is just this: 
that Christ came to earth as a second Adam, 
or a quickening Spirit, and with not less than 
to lift us above the plane of cultivated, intel- 
lectual, amiable life, but controlling us soul, 
spirit, and body, so that the evil one touch us 
not, and sustain a life relation to Christ that 
he sustained to the Father. Who can doubt 
such an experience or state in this life when 
we consider that God is able to do exceeding 
abundantly above all that we can think or ask 
by the power that worketh in us? Jesus, in 
his human life, knew no more than one of us 
(as it relates to divine things), only as the 
Father revealed them to him. He openly de- 
clared this himself, yet in his divine nature as 



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the second person in the Trinity he was equal 
with the Father. He was human, but with- 
out sin. So he proposes to lift us up to his 
state, which will be millennial rest. In his 
human nature he said he did not know when 
the hour would come for the end of time, 
neither the angels — his Father only. His di- 
vine nature did, for that is equal to the Father 
in all things. 

IT REQUIRES FULL OBEDIENCE. 

And having in readiness to avenge all diso- 
bedience when your obedience is full. — 1 Cor. 
x. 6. 

An obedience rounded out in Bible fullness, 
according to the agencies and appliances given 
in God's word, will secure to us all that is 
promised by our Savior; and that is not less 
than all the fullness of God. And as simple 
as it may appear, the nature of that obedience 
is to do the things that are pleasing in his 
sight. 

AS JESUS IS SO ARE WE TO BE IN THIS LIFE. 

And we have known and believe the love 
that God hath to us. God is love, and he 



244 MlIylvKNNlAlv Day-Star. 

that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and 
God in him. Herein is our love made per- 
fect, that we may have boldness in the day of 
judgment, because as he is so are we in this 
world. — i John iv. 16, 17. 

There is perfect love and peace between 
the Father and Son. So with us and our 
Savior. As Christ is safe at the right hand of 
God, so are we safe in Christ. As Christ is 
in the fullness of God's love, so are we to be 
in the fullness of Christ's love down here on 
this earth in this life. 

WE ARE TO OVERCOME AS HE DID. 

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit 
with me in my throne, even as I also over- 
came and am set down with my Father in his 
throne. — Rev. iii. 21. 

How did Christ overcome? By the power 
of his Father. Was that a complete over- 
coming? It was. Did he overcome while 
down here on earth? He did? Then we are 
to overcome here on earth as he did. There 
can be no overcoming when we get to heaven. 
All the overcoming must be on earth. This 



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will give us a seat with Jesus on his throne. 
Learn hence, that by faith Christ who has 
overcome that we through him might do the 
same thing. For this is the victory by which 
we are to overcome, even our faith. 

WE ARE TO WALK AS HE DID. 

He that saith he abideth in him ought him- 
self also so to walk even as he walked. — -1 
John ii. 6. 

Who can stand before the church when her 
arm is as the arm of the Lord? When her 
steps are all " ordered by the Lord," who has 
come " traveling in the greatness of his 
strength. O ye trembling ones, look up and 
rejoice, for the time for your redemption 
draweth nigh. Behold your King — " mighty 
to save." 

WE ARE TO HAVE POWER OVER ALL THE 
POWER OF THE ENEMY. 

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on 
serpents and scorpions and over all the power 
of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means 
hurt you. — Luke x. 19. 

The day is coming when Satan will be 



246 MlIXENNlAl, DAY-STAR. 

chained a thousand years. Then will the 
church have rest. But this can never be until 
the bride shall prevail with this prayer on her 
lips and proceeding from her heart, Thy king- 
dom come. -' Come, Lord Jesus." 

WE ARE TO WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT AND 

IN TRUTH. 

God is a Spirit, and they that worship him 
mnst worship him in spirit and in truth. — 
John iv. 24. 

This is indeed worshiping God in the beauty 
of holiness, realizing intensely the personality 
of Christ in our prayers, in our songs, in our 
meditations, thanksgivings, and our praise. It 
is to realize the sweetness of his words. It 
leads us to exclaim, in the language of the 
Psalmist, I will extol thee, O Lord, because 
thou lifted me up. 

WE ARE TO SEEK THE GLORY OF GOD IN 
ALL THINGS. 

He that speaketh of himself seeketh his 
own glory; but he that seeketh his glory that 
sent him, the same is true, and no unright- 
eousness is in him. — John vii. 18. 



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Then will we with undivided hearts give 
all the glory to God and the Lamb, and self 
will disappear by our Savior, as he has dis- 
posed of our sins, separating them as far as 
the east is from the west. 

OUR LAMPS TRIMMED AND BURNING. 

Then all those virgins arose and trimmed 
their lamps. — Matt. xxv. 7. 

O happy day, when all the church shall 
appear in white, and their lamps trimmed 
and burning. Then Jesus will look down 
from heaven and say, Behold, the bridegroom 
cometh; go ye out to meet him. I will come 
and make up my jewels. 

GOD WILL KEEP US. 

And now I am no more in the world, but 
these are in the world, and I come to thee, 
Holy Father; keep through thine own name 
those whom thou hast given me, that they 
may be one as we are one. — John xvii. 11. 

GOD WILL PRESERVE US. 

But to him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of 
God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, 



248 MlI,I,BNNIAI« DAY-STAR. 

and sanctification, and redemption. — 1 Cor. i. 

Christ is made unto us or all true believers 
by the Father our wisdom, righteousness, 
sanctification, and redemption. Hence, the 
fourfold gift. When we receive Christ in all 
his fullness, then we shall be able to see the 
magnitude of this, his fourfold gift. It is to 
be filled with all the fullness of God, because 
Christ formed in us the fullness of God. This 
lesson on the "Fullness of God" is intended 
to show the steps to be taken in order to re- 
ceive all God has provided for us in Christ. 

i. Consecration of all to God. 

2. All powers of our being given to God. 

3. Every thought in subjection to God. 

THE PROMISED REST TO THE PEOPLE OF 

GOD. 

We are now camped on the banks of the 
Jordan. The whole church is in the rear 
guard. We are about to go over as sent out 
of the Lord to view the land of rest. There 
remaineth a rest to the people of God. This 
blessed millennial rest is just before us. There- 



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fore let us fear lest a promise being left us of 
entering into his rest any of you should seem 
to come short of it. We are to have a fore- 
taste of the fruit of that land, which is the 
earnest of our inheritance until the redemp- 
tion of the purchased possession, unto the 
praise of his glory. — Eph. i. 14. If the ear- 
nest so fills us with peace and glory and virtue 
and all the fullness of God, what will it be 
when he comes and we see him as he is? We 
are to drive out all the enemies that now oc- 
cupy the land — infidelity, and all false relig- 
ion, and whatsoever loveth and maketh a lie. 
Satan and the world will evacuate the land. 
Rom. xvi. 20: And the God of peace shall 
bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The 
triumph over the devil, who hath led us cap- 
tive at his will so many times, will be joyous to 
the wholly liberated soul. We are to bear a 
specimen of the fruit of the land to the church 
of Christ at large. Rom. viii. 23: And not 
only they, but ourselves also, which have the 
first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves 
groaning within ourselves, waiting for the 
adoption, to wit: the redemption of our 
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bodies. God has always planned that they 
who are enriched with his fruits should 
leave them to other people, telling us 
it is more blessed to give than to receive. 
Bring them forth to me, and then distribute to 
the multitude. The gifts of the Spirit to be 
used to confirm what we experience in the 
land of rest and the promised vision. Mark 
xvi. 20: And they went forth and preached 
everywhere, the Lord working with them, 
and confirming the word with signs following 
them. 

The gifts of the Spirit, as recorded in 1 
Cor. twelfth chapter, are to be restored or 
some other wonderful works to be more con- 
vincing than have been seen in all past ages, 
as a proof of the divine source of these things. 
They are what the church ought never to 
have lost, which they did by unbelief alone, 
not because they were unnecessary. But a 
short time will be given to prepare for march- 
ing orders. He which testifieth these things 
saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even 
so, come, Lord Jesus. — Rev. xxii. 20. We are 
now in the transit of this wonderful era, the 



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dawn of its glory. The sound is heard in the 
tops of the mulberry trees, Prepare ye the 
victuals, for within three years ye shall pass 
over this Jordan; make no delay. He is sum- 
moning his witnesses and marshaling his host. 
We are to labor to enter into that rest, and 
those who will not hearken to the voice of 
the Lord may fail to enter in. Heb. iv. 11: 
Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest, 
lest any man fall after the same example of 
unbelief. There is nothing accomplished for 
God without labor, as all other successes. 
Awake thou and arise, shine, and press to- 
ward the mark for the prize. Neglect not, 
but strive and stir up the gift that is in you, 
and the Lord will be with you. We shall be 
free from the lust of the flesh, and the war 
between the flesh and the spirit shall forever 
cease. But now being made free from sin 
and become servants to God, ye have your 
fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting 
life. — Rom. vi. 22. And ye shall know the 
truth, and the truth shall make you free. — John 
viii. 32. Before the millennium period we 
shall have an earnest of its freedom in a sane- 



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tification of the animal nature, called fre- 
quently flesh. This was what Jesus was, and 
by faith in him we may be like him, because 
as he is so are we in this world. We shall be 
beyond the defiling touch of Satan. 1 John 
v. 18: We know whosoever is born of God 
sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God 
keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth 
him not. We will also have an earnest in a 
spirit release of that day, when the angel 
comes down from heaven having the key of 
the bottomless pit and a great chain in his 
hand. And he laid hands on the dragon, that 
old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and 
bound him a thousand years. Praise the 
Lord. The world will no longer oppose us, 
nor delude us, nor give pain in labor, nor 
weariness in providing for the wants of the 
body. For he that hath entered into his rest 
he also hath ceased from his works as God 
did from his — Heb. iv. 10. It has been so 
hard for men to cease from their own works, 
thinking they must do something to save 
themselves or merit the grace of God, which 
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blessings and the increased light from the 

vision made plain, the willing heart will enter 

into inexpressible peace and glory. To those 
who desire to enter into that rest must look 

well to home religion. Deut. vi. 7: And 
thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy 
children, and shalt talk of them when thou 
sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest 
by the way, and when thou liest down and 
risest up. The secret of power for service is 
to overcome the tempter at home and to real- 
ize that the souls of our children are more 
important than mind or body. To so teach 
them is one of the mighty tasks of the house- 
hold. The little ones are continually absorb- 
ing from us, and if the fountain is pure and 
vigorous, so with the stream. Those that en- 
ter in must be able to eat strong meat. I 
have fed you with milk and not with meat; 
for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither 
yet now are ye able. This strong soul food is 
sickening and disagreeable to the half-hearted 
follower, who is absorbed, when meditating 
at all, with his poor unworthy self, doing or 
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advancing. When self is thrown down in 
the arms of the Master, then will he feed 
his own, and they will grow as the calves of 
the stall on the choicest meat of the heavenly 
market. All weights must be laid aside. The 
vision reads we must " run." Wherefore, see- 
ing we are compassed about with so great a 
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every 
weight and the sin which doth so easily beset 
us and let us run with patience the race that 
is set before us, looking unto Jesus, who is 
the author and finisher of our faith, who for 
the joy that was set before him endured the 
cross, despising the shame, and is set down at 
the right hand of the throne of God. It is 
the little foxes, gray, and hidden in the rocks, 
which destroy the vines, for our vines have 
tender grapes. The soul is a tender grape, 
grape in the teeth of the destructive fox when 
caught by little sins, which are the teeth of 
the evil one. All strife and sectarianism must 
be laid aside. 

i Cor. iii. 3-8: For ye are yet carnal: for 
whereas there is among you envying, and 
strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and 



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walk as men? For while one saith, I am of 
Paul; and another, I am of Apollos: are ye 
not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is 
Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, 
even as the Lord gave to every man? I have 
planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the 
increase. So then neither is he that planteth 
any thing, neither he that watereth; but God 
that giveth the increase. Now he that plant- 
eth and he that watereth are one, and every 
man shall receive his own reward according 
to his own labor. 

Sectarianism has been a great lever to the 
devil in overturning the work of the Lord, de- 
laying the angel who might deliver us twenty- 
one days earlier. So many, in waiting, faint 
by the way, and continue not as did Daniel to 
the end of the vision. We must build on the 
foundation, the only sure one. 

1 Cor. iii. 11: For other foundation can no 
man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 

The thief and robber has ever been active 
to get in the fold by some other way and rob 
the meek and lowly one; but thanks be unto 
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given among men whereby we must be saved. 
Our work will be put to a severe test. 

1 Cor. iii. 13: Every man's work shall be 
made manifest, for the clay shall declare it, be- 
cause it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire 
shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 

Our God in Christ Jesus is a God of love, 
but out of Christ a consuming fire. Who 
shall be able to abide that day? He that 
would enter in must be careful not to defile 
the body, for we enter with soul, body, and 
spirit. But with whom was he grieved forty 
years? Was it not with them that had sinned, 
whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? — Heb. 
iii. 17. 

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, 
and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 
If any man defile the temple of God him shall 
God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, 
which temple ye are. — 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17. 

Bodily purity, as taught in the Bible, is 
almost a lost doctrine. Opium, tobacco, snuff, 
intoxication from drink, and other superflui- 
ties, have done their destructive work. O 
that the church might learn the prayer and 



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obey it. And the God of peace sanctify you 
wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and 
soul and body be preserved blameless unto 
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

The Christian must spare no time nor neg- 
lect any duty to be ready for marching orders. 
The time is at hand, and if any are found 
wanting will be left behind. 

Matt. xxiv. 44: Therefore be ye also ready, 
for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of 
man cometh. 

The loins girded, lamps burning, is the 
proper attitude for the Christian. Here we 
have no continuing city, but seek one to come. 
To live in this watchful experience, with a 
true sense of responsibility, always makes us 
most efficient as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. 
The righteous shall inherit the earth and the 
time is at hand. 

Ps. xxxvii. 9, 11, 22, 29, 34: For evil-doers 
shall be cut off: but those that wait on the 
Lord, they shall inherit the earth. But the 
meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight 
themselves in the abundance of peace. For 
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earth; and they that be cursed of him shall 
be cut off. The righteous shall inherit the 
land and dwell therein forever. Wait on the 
Lord and keep his way, and he shall exalt 
thee to inherit the land; when the wicked are 
cut off thou shalt see it. 



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